Thursday, May 2, 2019

Burn it all down

The Trump administration moved Thursday to give oil and gas companies more flexibility in meeting safety requirements imposed after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed nearly a dozen people and was the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.

The revised rules, which govern safety standards at offshore wells, come as the administration pushes to expand drilling off the U.S. coast, although court challenges and opposition from many coastal states have slowed its efforts.

[...]

Officials estimate the Trump administration revisions will save the oil industry more than $1.5 billion over the next 10 years.

  AP News
What could be more important than that? MAGA.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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