Trump Plans to Relax Obama Rules for Oil Companies Put in Place After BP Disaster

The Guardian

The Trump administration is expected to give BP and other big oil companies more power to self-regulate their offshore drilling operations. The anticipated rule change comes nine years after investigators found that lax regulatory oversight was one of the leading culprits behind the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and as the White House seeks to open more of the U.S. coast to offshore oil and gas drilling.

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