Legal Challenges To Deepwater Drilling Ban Dismissed Gulf Coast Maritime The moratoriums imposed a blanket ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the horrific destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform …
Green: Offshore Drilling Ban Lawsuit Dismissed New York Times Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered a halt to all deepwater drilling shortly after the BP Deepwater Horizon accident in April, which killed 11 rig …
In the weeks immediately following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform on April 20, 2010, Conservative pundits quickly tried to minimize the amount of damage we could expect from all that oil washing ashore, comparing it to “natural seepage” from the ocean floor. Conservative pundits that initially believed the spill would turn out to be “no big deal” later (falsely) blamed President Obama for not reacting to the disaster sooner. And suddenly this was “Obama’s Katrina”. Video Rating: 4 / 5