The Interior Department responded swiftly this morning to a report by its inspector general that said last-minute editing by the White House of a report on the oil spill led to the false implication that the report’s recommendation of a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling had been peer reviewed More…
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has still not made a decision about whether to lift her hold on President Obama’s nominee to head the White House Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew, her office told TWI today.
“There’s nothing new to report at this time,” Landrieu spokeswoman Ellie Atkins said More…
Despite the massive Gulf oil spill, the majority of likely voters would support proposals to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, according to a new poll.
The poll comes as the Obama administration has overturned a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf and imposed new safety rules on More…
Here’s something that’s sure to get under environmentalists’ skin. Chevron announced yesterday that it plans to develop two Gulf of Mexico oil fields in waters that are significantly deeper than those surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which exploded in April, dumping 4.9 million barrels of oil into the More…
The White House is expected to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this morning.
The moratorium was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, which dumped 4.9 million barrels More…
Oil giant Exxon Mobil spent less money on lobbying in the second quarter (April to June) of this year than it did during the same period last year, despite ongoing efforts by the Obama administration and Congress to reshape the way oil companies can drill offshore in light of the More…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made no announcements today about the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, despite expectations by many observers. Salazar said Michael Bromwich, head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, will deliver him a report on the moratorium “soon.”
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said today she stands by her hold on President Obama’s nominee for White House Office of Management and Budget director because the administration has yet to overturn its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
A bold statement from Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), a vehement opponent of the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico:
Michael Bromwich, who heads the newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at the Interior Department, told a national commission on the Gulf oil spill today that he will release a report outlining new rules for offshore drilling “later this week.”
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