Trump Administration Mounts Second Attempt to Relax Offshore Arctic Drilling Rules

Trump administration mounts second attempt to relax offshore Arctic drilling rules

The administration is seeking to change safety rules for oil operations in Arctic waters off Alaska, a region where exploration and development projects have stalled.

'Recipe for Catastrophe': Trump Moves to Weaken Arctic Drilling Safeguards

"We should be banning drilling in the Arctic Ocean, not making it easier for industry to exploit and pollute."

Trump Administration Proposes Rolling Back Obama-Era Arctic Drilling Rules

The U.S. Department of the Interior has proposed targeted changes to federal regulations governing exploratory oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic offshore, arguing the revisions will reduce unnecessary regulatory...

DOI changing the rules

The U.S. Department of the Interior said Aug. 3 that it will propose a rule through the Marine Minerals Administration modernizing and refining regulations for exploration oil and gas drilling on the arctic outer continental shelf offshore Alaska. The Marine Minerals Administration, MMA, is the recombination, announced by Interior April 3, of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau...