Today’s lawsuit says BOEM’s failure to require Sable to update the plans for the Santa Ynez Unit violates the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and Administrative Procedure Act. The agency is ignoring ...

With moves into deeper waters becoming more common as the search for new hydrocarbons continues, the regulatory framework needs to change.

LOS ANGELES— The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management agreed today to review outdated plans for offshore oil ... that the platforms need to be shut down.” The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act requires ...

“I’m appalled that Trump officials would even consider allowing these offshore oil platforms to come back from the dead under plans approved decades ago,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director ...