is a very big problem," Sakashita said at the outset....

Tougher offshore safety rules had been adopted in 2016 but were revised in 2019 under then-President Donald Trump.... They require that remotely operated underwater vehicles be capable of opening and closing key components of blowout preventers.... They also include mandates and time limits for investigating failures and providing data on blowouts to regulators.It's a revision but not a complete reversal of the Trump-era changes....

Tougher offshore safety rules had been adopted in 2016 but were revised in 2019 under then-President Donald Trump.... They require that remotely operated underwater vehicles be capable of opening and closing key components of blowout preventers.... They also include mandates and time limits for investigating failures and providing data on blowouts to regulators.It's a revision but not a complete reversal of the Trump-era changes....

An undersea pipeline ruptured, then caught fire, creating a blaze on top of the sea. Extraordinary footage from the scene shows the fire just meters from a gas extraction platform.Ms Thunberg, a leading environmental campaigner, reposted a video of the incident, and expressed her outrage, via Twitter. She said: “ Meanwhile the people in power call themselves" climate leaders" as they open up new oilfields, pipelines and coal power plants-granting new oil licenses exploring future oil drilling si

LOS ANGELES--Hoping to recover a lost anchor chain, a work boat dragged a grappling hook along the seabed near an oil platform off the Southern California coast.... It's suspected the damage led to the pipeline cracking and spilling about 25, 000 gallons( 94, 635 liters) of crude. The incident has renewed calls to end drilling in coastal waters and comes amid a societal reckoning over climate change and continued reliance on fossil fuels.... “ California’s offshore oil infrastructure is old an