Sentences with phrase «on offshore drilling»

The plaintiff was a senior mechanic on an offshore drilling rig.

If we let those who pay the costs of spills decide on offshore drilling, we won't be doing much of it anymore.

As the administration approaches a final decision on offshore drilling, these concerns identified by state media outlets should inform national media coverage in the days and weeks ahead.

While the Gulf oil spill has led to a momentary moratorium on offshore drilling in the US, we are sure to face a time when offshore drilling again becomes viable... including in lands where polar bears roam.

A U.S. Senate vote on Doney's nomination had been blocked for more than a year by Senator David Vitter (R - LA), who was unhappy with the Obama Administration's decision to impose a moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump's administration has already reversed Obama - era bans on offshore drilling in certain parts of the Arctic, a turn that could intensify competition for resources in the region with major oil producer Russia.

«It's about time the federal government tightened the safety rules on offshore drilling.

Just past the seventh anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Trump directed the Interior Department to «reconsider» several safety regulations on offshore drilling implemented after one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation's history.

This briefing paper examines how US oil production might be phased down to align with the Paris Agreement goals, focusing on offshore drilling in federal waters in particular.

As prices rose in late June, President Bush called for lifting the restrictions on offshore drilling in the US.

Mark Wahlberg stars in a look at the explosion that happened on the offshore drilling rig that led to the worst oil spill in US history.

But even if Congress were to lift its 16 - year ban on offshore drilling tomorrow, she agrees with the EIA that it would take at least five years before an oil company awarded a lease could pump its first drop of oil.

SYNOPSIS: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

The film chronicles the disaster that took place on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in 2010, and also stars Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Dylan O'Brien and Kate Hudson.

Now the Obama administration is trying to backtrack on offshore drilling, but Shell and BP are planning to drill off the Arctic coast of Alaska this summer.

Founded in 2009 by Dave Rauschkolb, Hands Across The Sand aims to steer America's energy policy away from its dependence on offshore drilling and call for a new energy plan, which incorporates clean and renewable sources, and encourages conservation.

See Surfrider's Fact Sheet on offshore drilling.

In 2008, as prices at the pump neared $ 5 a gallon, President Bush had lifted an executive moratorium on offshore drilling outside the Gulf that had been implemented by his father following the Exxon Valdez.

Obama Willing to Compromise on Offshore Oil Drilling At the end of last week, Barack Obama changed his position on offshore drilling.

The Democratic - controlled Congress let the moratorium on offshore drilling expire last October, responding to public outrage over $ 4 - a-gallon gasoline and the Republicans» «drill, baby, drill» chant.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has also announced that in April the agency will hold a series of public hearings on offshore drilling in Alaska, New Jersey, New Orleans and San Francisco.

Some 11th - hour White House fiddling with an Interior Department report on offshore drilling safety wrongly implied that engineering experts had endorsed a political decision to impose a six - month ban on deepwater drilling, the department's inspector general concluded in a finding made public this week.

Floormen operate on offshore drilling rigs and are also known as roughnecks.

The Gulf oil spill has added fresh urgency to the issue, and the bill could raise the liability caps on oil companies and impose stricter rules on offshore drilling.

The portion of the speech detailing the government's response to the Deepwater Horizon spill seemed effective, as did his explanation of his plan to toughen regulations on offshore drilling.

At the event, Cuomo made comparisons between his administration and that of President Donald Trump, saying while Trump is focusing on offshore drilling, he's planning to build more offshore wind - generating sites.

What would be the impact of a permanent ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?

When the BP oil spill was at its worst and Crist was (opportunistically as ever) backing restrictions on offshore drilling, Rubio hung tough.

The Surfrider Foundation is particularly proud of their 20,000 + activists who sent letters and messages to President Obama asking for the reinstatement of the executive moratorium on offshore drilling.

At the event, Cuomo made comparisons between his administration and that of President Trump, saying while Trump is focusing on offshore drilling, he's planning to build more offshore wind - generating sites.

The articles included 80 on climate change (47 percent); 66 on the status of a species or population (39 percent); 52 on pollution (31 percent); 23 on offshore drilling (14 percent); and five on aquaculture, which is a method for farming ocean species (3 percent).

By executive order, President Bush lifted the ban on offshore drilling and then crude had its biggest drop in 18 yrs.

On offshore drilling, I checked in with Peter Maass, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine who is working on a book on oil and who wrote a provocative column in 2005 calling for resumption of American coastal drilling — but not for the reasons Mr. McCain is pushing for it.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday announced that there would be tough new safety rules on offshore drilling that would have to be complied with fully by existing operations before new drilling permits would be issued.

Just last week, on December 28, the administration announced a rollback of Obama - era safety regulations on offshore drilling — rules that could have prevented the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf.

The Surfrider Foundation's Not The Answer Campaign has partnered with waterman and activist Laird Hamilton for a new public service announcement (PSA) created by WINDOWSEATpictures urging President Obama and congress to reinstate the moratorium on offshore drilling.

«Hillary Clinton is half the way there,» climate activist Bill McKibben said in a statement Monday that made it clear he and his allies will be watching for Clinton to weigh in on offshore drilling in the Arctic and coal mining in the Powder River Basin.

On offshore drilling: The plan also called for ending offshore drilling, for the sake of energy security and the environment.

Between the loss of jobs in the tourism and fishing industries around the Gulf, as well as those lost from the moratorium on offshore drilling, at least one analyst says that one million people will be out of work as a result of the spill.

The bill is likely to be a broad collection of provisions, including some in response to the gulf spill that would increase the liability caps on oil companies and impose tougher environmental and safety rules on offshore drilling.

In response to the Obama Administration's announcement today regarding a ban on offshore drilling, the Surfrider Foundation issued the following statement: