Exclusive: Interior hands out hundreds of offshore drilling safety rule waivers

The Interior Department has given offshore oil drillers nearly 1,700 exemptions to Obama-era safety rules put in place after BP's 2010 oil disaster, effectively gutting parts of the regulation before the Trump admin officially rolls them back

BOILER-PIPE: Share on Twitter The Interior Department has given offshore oil drillers nearly 1,700 exemptions to Obama-era safety rules put in place after BP's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, effectively gutting parts of the regulation before the Trump administration officially rolls them back. Those waivers were awarded in the first 20 months after the Well Control Rule took effect, according to data provided to POLITICO under a Freedom of Information Act request.

regulations,” agency spokesperson Lisa Lawrence said. The source for energy and environment news — weekday mornings, in your inbox. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. The waivers mostly focused on 53 provisions of the final Obama-era rule that took effect at the end of July 2016 and which the industry had complained were the most burdensome.

showed the number of times the bureau fulfilled companies' requests for waivers to individual provisions of the rule, but not the dates they were granted.

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