The letter falls two days before the 14-year anniversary of the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history: the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 ...

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PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) – The Trump administration is easing safety rules adopted after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history. The Interior ...

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The Interior Department now will consider options for opening new areas to oil leasing and examine current plan boundaries designed to protect ecologically sensitive habitat in the reserve. The ...

The air force has joined other planes dumping chemicals on the spill leaking from the site of a sunken oil rig. Interior secretary Ken Salazar says the well's owner BP needs to do more.

Management of offshore oil resources will be split from the enforcement of safety rules for drilling by the end of September, a step in overhauling oversight of the energy industry, Interior ...