The following article by Mary Papenfuss was posted on the Huffington Post website December 22, 2017:
Findings were supposed to help prevent another Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The Trump administration has abruptly cut off funding for studying the safety of offshore drilling, halting a 21-month project to determine the best ways to avoid a repeat of 2010′s devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The study began last year and was supposed to review and update government regulators’ outdated offshore inspection programs to improve safety. Continue reading “Trump Administration Abruptly Halts Offshore Drilling Safety Study”