Trump to slash safety regulations put in place after nations worst environmental disaster

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-targets-blowout-prevention-rules-8508eb334087/

Trump to slash safety regulations put in place after nation’s worst environmental disaster
Relaxing offshore drilling rules would save industry $900 million over 10 years.
Mark Hand
Dec 26, 2017, 2:30 pm


During the Obama administration, the federal government took action to prevent another Deepwater Horizon-sized oil spill, widely viewed as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. After taking office, the Trump administration immediately began making plans to relax certain offshore drilling rules implemented after the 2010 disaster.

As part of those regulatory rollback efforts, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which regulates offshore drilling, has developed a proposal that it estimates will save the industry more than $900 million over the next 10 years. The proposed changes would reverse safety measures that offshore oil and gas companies consider burdensome, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The BSEE sent its proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget earlier this month for review, but the proposal has yet to be made public, according to the newspaper.

The proposal represents another component of President Donald Trump’s goal of achieving a “new era of American energy dominance,” and his desire to reduce the amount of federal regulations to the same level as 1960. Over the past 11 months, the Trump administration has canceled or delayed more than 1,500 planned regulatory actions, “more than any previous president, by far,” the president boasted on December 14 at a White House event.

The proposal would relax obligations to stream real-time data on offshore oil production operations to onshore facilities, where regulators can review them. The changes also would eliminate a requirement that BSEE must certify third-party inspectors of critical equipment, such as the blowout preventer that failed in the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-targets-blowout-prevention-rules-8508eb334087/

[dalton99a]

1. Psst! What say you, Dr. Stein?

[Phoenix61]

2. I live on the Gulf Coast

This is not good news. So much of our economy is based on tourism not to mention the seafood industry. Real-time data streaming is important in the case of an incident that causes the loss of on-site computers. It limits arguments over what actually happened and makes it easier to assign responsibility. Exactly the reason the industry is against it.

[riversedge]

3. We really need to him and his dangerous Cabinet out!!

[Dustlawyer]

4. I read this while I sit in a BP Deepwater Horizon litigation

Meeting almost 8 years after. There are still victims waiting for compensation despite BP accepting liability from the start.