Trump officials ease offshore drilling safety rule

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

The Trump administration moved Thursday to ease provisions of a key offshore drilling safety rule, saying some of the Obama administration’s standards were unnecessarily burdensome on oil and natural gas companies.

The Thursday rollback removes the mandate that independent third parties certify safety devices for effective operation in the most extreme conditions, allowing oil company employees to examine devices themselves and document the process.

It’s part of the Trump administration’s “energy dominance” agenda, in which President Trump is seeking to boost domestic production of fossil fuels and other forms of energy, mainly by easing regulatory burdens.

The new regulation also eases requirements for companies to notify BSEE, including removing a mandate for a notification for “false alarms” from safety equipment sensors. Companies also will only have to notify BSEE officials when they start initial oil or gas production at a site, not every time they start production.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/408727-trump-officials-ease-offshore-drilling-safety-rule

[Ohiogal]

1. I swear

Everything this regime touches, it does ass-backwards, wrong, and makes things more dangerous/costly for the American people.

[kimbutgar]

2. Gee I wonder how those coastal southern states are going to feel about this.

i Know in California we will fight this. But the gulf has never recovered from the oil platform blowing up a few years ago. Louisiana, Florida the Carolinas, Alabama and Texas waters were eco damaged.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I know that states are pushing for their own regulations because the feds under rump ...

seem to be walking away from all kinds of safety regulations such as this, getting independent approval of safety devices, etc. There were good reasons for all of these regulations, and we don't seem to get any kind of proof or evidence that the regulations being eliminated are no longer needed.

I know that states on both coasts are moving this way (putting in regulations themselves), but I don't know anything about the gulf states. I know that they had a big row in Florida when coastal areas were opened back up to drilling earlier and the governor of FL bitched about it and got them (the feds) to back off of Florida drilling.

What a mess. One day, this is all going to backfire.

[noneof_theabove]

4. this is part of the big fail...

Leave it up to the states.

Well, the purpose of the Feds is to level the field.

They somewhat did internet taxes the right way.
An "average" tax to "all" states

Otherwise the business is burdened with 51 different tax tables and "rules".

The simple and best way is...
Tax the banking transactions.
That gets everyone equally.
Not IRS, H&R Block, etc. thank you for your service but this is the 21st Century.
Just 2% on both incoming and outgoing transactions based on
$5 TRILLION per day [wall street is a big part of this] results in
$26 Trillion per year in taxes to divide up between fed, state, regional, local entities.
Budget this year is $3.8T and estimated to end at $4.2T.

Imagine that, enough for infrastructure, education [phd degree included], medical for all
[well faces lifts may have have a price].

Oh, and that you last year expenditures [savings and the like are not taxed only in & out]
and multiply by 4% [2% in and 2% out of "spending"] and see how much a raise that
will be on each pay check and that is real money for "retirement".