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A federal judge Tuesday delivered a blow to President Obama's call for a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling, granting a preliminary restraining order that prevents the U.S. Department of ...
George W. Bush lifted the oil drilling ban and also President Barack Obama was for limited offshore drilling. The Obama administration opened new areas in U.S. coastal waters to offshore drilling for gas and oil in March 2010, despite the recent Deepwater Horizon explosion and Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but rescinded the ...
The Obama administration assembled a panel to advise his administration on how to address offshore drilling in the wake of the spill. The group have stated that Salazar's May 27 report to Obama portrayed their approval of the moratorium, they claim that the panel reviewed a previous draft of the document with bans only on new drilling in water deeper than 1,000 feet.
President Obama speaking in the Oval Office about the spill. On 30 April 2010, President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to delay issuing new offshore drilling leases until a thorough review determined whether more safety systems were needed [1] and authorized teams to investigate 29 oil rigs in the Gulf in an effort to determine the cause of the disaster. [2]
The Biden administration has finalized the restoration of Obama-era offshore oil drilling rules, passed in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, that the Trump administration rolled back.
The Obama administration lost its second legal bid to ban offshore deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for six months. An appellate court supported the ruling of Judge Martin L.C. Feldman of ...
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling is a bipartisan presidential commission, established by Executive Order 13543 signed by Barack Obama on May 21, 2010, that is "tasked with providing recommendations on how the United States can prevent and mitigate the impact of any future spills that result from offshore drilling."
Announcing the first expansion of U.S. offshore oil and gas development in more than two decades, President Obama said on Wednesday that the administration will allow offshore drilling in regions ...