New US oil drilling regulations aim to prevent another Deepwater disaster
by Oliver Milman from on (#1AH3G)
Six years after the worst environmental catastrophe in US history, Department of the Interior has proposed mandatory standards for oil well infrastructure
The Obama administration has outlined new drilling regulations aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But the White House is set for a brawl with the oil industry, which claims the rules will cost billions of dollars and imperil thousands of jobs.
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