Friday, November 30, 2012

U.S. Gets Court's Backing for New Gulf Drilling Ban

The Obama administration should not have been held in contempt for continuing a drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico over a judge's injunction, the 5th Circuit ruled.
     Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar placed the moratorium on new drilling in the Gulf one week after the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 people and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/29/52684.htm

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