Interior halts exemptions from environmental reviews for deepwater drilling

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ERICA WERNER
Associated Press Writer
1:13 p.m. CDT, August 16, 2010


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration announced Monday it is requiring environmental reviews for all new deepwater oil drilling.

That means an end, at least for now, to the kind of exemptions that allowed BP to drill its blown-out well in the Gulf with little scrutiny.

The announcement came in response to a report by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which found BP got environmental exemptions based on decades-old data.

The Interior Department said the ban on so-called "categorical exclusions" for deepwater drilling would be in place pending full review of how such exemptions are granted.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-gulf-oil-spill-washington,0,7554376.story

Let the Squealing from Bobby and the Jindalettes begin....

[niyad]

1. it took them nearly three months after this disaster started to get around to this??

pathetic