BALTIMORE, MD (January 30, 2018) – Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh led a group of Attorneys General in submitting comments to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), opposing proposed weakening of the agency’s regulations governing safety systems for offshore oil and gas production. The purpose of the regulations, updated and implemented in 2016 after the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, was to reduce the environmental and safety risks associated with offshore drilling.
“The Deepwater Horizon oil explosion caused substantial and lasting harm to the environment,” said Attorney General Frosh. “But the lives lost are the most tragic and permanent result of that incident. Rolling back safety protections less than two years after implementation is wrong and jeopardizes human and environmental safety.”
Read more in the full press release: http://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/press/2018/013018.pdf
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