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Obama Bans New East Coast Offshore Drilling: 3 Possible Reasons
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 1) -- Don't drill, baby, don't drill. Reversing its pre-BP oil spill disaster position, the Obama administration announced today that it will not engage in offshore drilling on the East Coast of the U.S. and the eastern Gulf of Mexico region, according to The Associated Press. The original policy, announced three weeks before the gulf oil spill, would have permitted authorized drilling from the Delaware coast to waters near central Florida, as well as in northern Alaska. The new policy, however, does maintain the possibility for drilling near Alaska. "Our revised strategy lays out a ...
Gulf Coast Residents Still Support Oil Drilling Despite Spill, Poll Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDespite the significant economic, environmental and emotional toll of the BP oil spill, residents of the Gulf Coast still overwhelmingly support off-shore drilling, according to a new poll. Three-quarters of respondents in a ABC News-Washington Post survey released Wednesday said drilling should resume at its existing level, or be expanded. And by a margin of 60-38 percent, residents of Gulf states are against the six-month moratorium on drilling ordered Monday by the White House. This poll was based on results among 1,288 respondents nationally and from an extra sample of randomly ...
2 Ways Obama's New Drilling Moratorium Is Different Than the Old One
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 12) -- Today, as BP continued work on a second oil spill cap to try to plug the Deepwater Horizon well, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Obama administration is issuing a new, improved moratorium on offshore drilling that will extend until Nov. 30. The move comes one week after a New Orleans federal appeals judge rejected the administration's attempt to impose a wholesale six-month halt to deep-sea drilling off U.S. shores pending a thorough review of safety standards, the Times-Picayune reported. That temporary ban would have shut down production on 33 deepwater oil ...
Obama Administration Issues New Drilling Moratorium
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 12) -- The Obama administration issued a new moratorium Monday on deep-water offshore drilling that no longer bans operators by the depth of water they're operating in and stresses new evidence of safety concerns, hoping the revised ban will pass muster with the courts after the initial one was rejected. The new ban does not appear to deviate much from the original moratorium, as it still targets deep-water drilling operators while defining them in a different way. "More than 80 days into the BP oil spill, a pause on deep-water drilling is essential and appropriate to ...
Court Rejects Bid to Restore Drilling Moratorium
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (July 8) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the federal government's effort to restore an offshore deepwater drilling moratorium, opening the door to resumed drilling in the Gulf while the legal fight continues. The ruling is not the final word on the Obama administration's fight to suspend new drilling projects so it can study the risks revealed by the disastrous BP oil spill. The same appeals court is expected to hear arguments on the merits of the moratorium case in late August or early September. While it's possible that 33 exploratory wells suspended by the ...
Judge Martin Feldman: 3 More High Profile Rulings from the Offshore Drilling Moratorium Buster
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThrust into the national spotlight following his decision that overturns President Barack Obama's six-month moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling, Judge Martin Feldman has been behind other controversial rulings during the course of his judicial career. Freedom of the Press: On Feb. 24, Feldman ruled in favor of The New York Times and the nonprofit news organization ProPublica in a libel case over the reporting of mistreatment of medical patients following Hurricane Katrina. Real Estate Development and RICO: On Sept. 13, Feldman dismissed a lawsuit filed by 50 residents of a housing ...
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