Oil companies push for status quo on environmental regulations for deep-water drilling rigs
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 22:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The pleas come as the White House Council on Environmental Quality is reviewing whether the federal drilling watchdog has appropriately followed the National Environmental Policy Act. Oil and gas companies have told the Obama administration that environmental regulations for deep-water drilling rigs do not immediately need to be toughened because the Deepwater Horizon explosion was an unforeseeable event, not a failure of...