Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is calling on BP to extend the deadline to apply for relief under a $100 million compensation fund for rig workers who have lost their jobs under the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. The Associated Press reported this week that fewer than 400 people have More…
It turns out just under 400 people have applied for relief under a $100 million fund BP set up to compensate rig workers who lost their jobs because of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. The low number could indicate that the moratorium didn’t have as significant an impact More…
Two powerful interest groups used a Senate Small Business Committee hearing today to call for an end to the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Obama administration released today its latest estimate of the economic cost of its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. And the numbers in the report indicate that the ban has less of an impact on the Gulf economy than was predicted by many opposed to the More…
Senate Small Business Committee Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-La.) slammed the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium at a hearing on the ban today. It’s not a surprise; Landrieu has been a strong opponent of the moratorium since it began, arguing that it has a severe economic impact on the Gulf region. More…
The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration yesterday to overturn the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico because, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell argues, it has resulted in a de facto moratorium on drilling off the coast of Alaska.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that an Interior Department task force has delivered to him a report that includes 59 recommendations for changes to the way the department oversees offshore drilling.
The report, conducted by the Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board, includes recommendations “to strengthen permitting, inspections, enforcement More…
Despite the best efforts of some environmentalists to argue that a fire on an offshore oil platform last week should cause the Obama administration to extend its moratorium on deepwater drilling, the nation’s lead offshore drilling regulator said yesterday that it would not affect the ban.
This post is the first in an occasional blog series in which we hear from real Gulf coast residents on how the oil spill impacts their lives.
Elodia Blanco, a life-long Louisiana resident, watched her television yesterday in disbelief.
An editorial in today’s New Orleans Times-Picayune today says calls for an extension of the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in light of yesterday’s oil rig explosion in the Gulf are “disingenuous.”
The editorial underscores the continued resistance to the administration’s six-month moratorium in the Gulf, where the oil More…
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