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U.S. Offshore Drilling Safety Committee May Disband Even as Concerns Mount
2013-01-09 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: A committee that advises the federal government on how to make offshore oil drilling safer could be disbanded next month, even as the recent grounding of a Shell rig in Alaska is drawing new attention to the dangers of deepwater drilling. The Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee (OESC), an advisory panel to the Department of Interior, was created after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill to gather input from a variety of stakeholders about the government's drilling policies. The 15-member panelcomposed...
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