Deepwater Horizon led to new protections for US waters. Trump just repealed them.

[babylonsister]

Deepwater Horizon led to new protections for US waters. Trump just repealed them.
Trump’s executive order voids an Obama policy that protected oceans from oil spills.
By Umair Irfan Jun 22, 2018, 5:40pm EDT


The Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers. Gas erupted into a massive fireball, and then the rig gushed 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It soon became the largest and most expensive marine oil spill in history, with an estimated $17.2 billion in damages to properties, fisheries, and tourism across the Gulf Coast.

In response, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating a commission to study the spill. The commission recommended new safety rules, accountability standards, and environmental regulations for drilling in US waters. Obama then signed another executive order to promote environmental stewardship of the ocean, coasts, and the Great Lakes in light of the oil spill. According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the new rules were “the most aggressive and comprehensive reforms to offshore oil and gas regulation and oversight in U.S. history.”

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump revoked Obama’s stewardship directive, replacing it with a new executive order giving more responsibility to states for offshore oil and gas drilling, as well as prioritizing business interests ahead of the environment. Trump said the measure is “rolling back excessive bureaucracy created by the previous administration.” (There was no mention of the Deepwater Horizon spill in his announcement or in the executive order.)

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT), who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, said the order “puts our country’s ocean policy back on the right track.” A former member of the Coast Guard who served during Deepwater Horizon was appalled:

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House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) told the Associated Press the order was “unilaterally throwing out” years of environmental preservation efforts.

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https://www.vox.com/2018/6/22/17493414/trump-executive-order-deepwater-horizon-drilling-oceans

[SHRED]

1. I hope there is a hell for him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. He looks like a demented lizard with a fish mouth. He's horrid looking.

Special place in hell for him.

[yonder]

3. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) doesn't exactly have to worry

about his state's non-existent coast line becoming befouled by off shore drilling. His constituents could likely care less. So no problemo.

For them.

What if they found huge shale oil deposits under that Great Salt Lake of theirs? Would a few hundred drill rigs on their shallow, briny western horizon cause the Mormon motherland to throw a ruckus then?

November, with new House Committee chairs can't get here fast enough.

[babylonsister]

4. This admin is befouling everything.

If it's not happening now, it's only a matter of time.

[KelleyKramer]

5. That's not really Trump, that the work of the Koch brothers

I'm sure Trump didn't even read it

All they had to do is tell him it reverses something Obama did

[smirkymonkey]

6. That miserable motherfucker!

I will rejoice upon reading his obituary.