Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in a speech today, announced two new offshore drilling safety rules.
“Under these new rules, operators will need to comply with tougher requirements for everything from well design and cementing practices to blowout preventers and employee training,” Salazar said. “They will also need to develop More…
Undocumented workers are working nearly 100 hours per week in unsafe conditions to clean up the Enbridge oil spill in Battle Creek, Mich., according to an investigation by our sister publication, The Michigan Messenger. The workers were bused in by a Texas company to clean up the spill, working 12- More…
It’s something of a tradition– administrations using their final weeks in power to ram through a slew of federal regulations. With the election grabbing the headlines, outgoing federal bureaucrats quietly propose and finalize rules that can affect the health and safety of millions.
The Bush administration has followed this tradition More…
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