Trump administration rolls back offshore drilling safety rules put in place after deepwater horizon
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The Interior Department announced a rollback on an Obama-era offshore drilling safety rule put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon BP oil spil, the Wall Street Journal reports. THE BIG
PICTURE, via Axios' Amy Harder: This is one of the most controversial regulatory rollbacks pursued by the Trump administration, due to the high-profile disaster that is still
America's worst oil spill. 11 workers died in the BP incident, and oil spilled into the gulf from a ruptured well for nearly three months before it was capped. DETAILS: "The rule
imposed tougher standards on equipment designed to keep control of a well," which involves blowout preventers that measure "the amount of pressure drillers must maintain to avoid
accidents," WSJ notes. * These changes "could save the oil industry up to $1.5 billion over a decade, according to department officials." GO DEEPER: Report: BP paid off
Mexican government with $25 million after oil spill