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US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday announced new guidelines intended to increase the safety of offshore drilling. The Drilling Safety Rule addresses specifications for and oversight of flow control mechanisms and well bore integrity,...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday denied the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services and several other drilling companies...

US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Monday that environmental reviews will be required for all new deepwater drilling, temporarily halting exemptions that allowed oil companies to drill without environmental impact statements. The process...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to the Obama administration's new offshore drilling moratorium , claiming it violates federal law. The complaint, filed in the US District...

A Michigan public interest law firm, Great Lakes Environmental Law Center (GLELC) , on Monday sent a notice of intent to file suit to Enbridge, Inc. , the Canadian owner of the Michigan...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday refused to reinstate a six-month drilling moratorium issued in May by the Obama administration in response to the BP Deepwater...

Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday refused to recuse himself from a case in which he has already overturned a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling...

The US House Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday approved an amendment , as part of a broader piece of legislation that would bar new offshore drilling and gas permits to any company...

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued a new six-month drilling moratorium on Tuesday, citing new evidence regarding safety concerns after the BP oil spill . Unlike the previously ordered moratorium, this...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday rejected a request from the Obama administration to stay a preliminary injunction lifting the government's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling . The three-judge...