Sen. Cantwell Issues Statement on Well Control Rule
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WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration's announcement to revise the well control rule:
"After over $65 billion of damage and bipartisan Congressional oversight hearings on the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, new protections were put in place to make sure this type of disaster never happened again.
"Today Interior is trying to ignore those protections. They are creating an unbelievable liability for taxpayers by ignoring safety."
Last Friday, April 20, marked the eighth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill--a catastrophic human, economic, and ecological disaster that resulted in the death of 11 members of the crew and the injury of 17 others. Oil spewed into the ocean for nearly three months, resulting in the largest offshore oil spill disaster in the history of the United States.
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