BP is balking at an US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order issued Thursday directing it to find an alternative dispersant to address the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in...
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US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday establishing an independent commission to investigate offshore drilling and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . The National...
JURIST Guest Columnist Itzchak Kornfeld of the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem says the blowout at BP's Deepwater Horizon Well in the Gulf of Mexico will lead to a plethora of legal claims... The tragic blowout...
Obama proposes energy regulations to increase offshore drilling
US President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a comprehensive energy plan Wednesday that would introduce regulations to increase offshore drilling while tightening emissions and mileage standards...
Obama administration announces new rules for public land drilling leases
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced new rules for obtaining leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands. The new rules were designed to provide a greater public voice in...
A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated Friday the Bush-era program for leasing of land for oil and gas drilling on the US Outer Continental...
Obama administration to reverse Bush offshore drilling policy
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced plans Tuesday to reverse offshore drilling policies established by former US President George W. Bush at the end of his presidency. The move comes...
US Senate approves expiration of moratorium on offshore oil drilling
The US Senate voted Saturday to approve spending legislation approving the expiration of a Congressional moratorium on offshore oil drilling . The spending bill, known as the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing...
The US House of Representatives passed proposed legislation Tuesday night that would partially lift the ban on offshore oil drilling as part of a comprehensive energy proposal. The bill, entitled the "Comprehensive American...
UK presses UN panel for expanded rights to Arctic seabed minerals
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Wednesday submitted requests to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (UNCLCS) to claim exclusive harvesting rights to an area of the seabed surrounding Ascension Island, a...