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Offshore oil drilling faces tougher rules from Washington
2015-04-11 07:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US is planning to impose a major new regulation on offshore oil and gas drilling to try to prevent the kind of explosions that caused the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing Obama administration officials. The interior department could make the announcement as early as Monday, the paper said. It is timed to coincide with the five-year anniversary of the BP disaster, which killed 11 men and sent millions of barrels of...
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