Send by Winkleman

A federal appeals court has rejected the federal governments effort to restore an offshore deepwater drilling moratorium, opening the door to resumed drilling in the Gulf while the legal fight continues. [...]

Send by sjl127

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government will immediately appeal a U.S. judge's ruling on Tuesday against the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.||"The president [...]

Send by BIGOTHER1

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is issuing a new moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling and it's no longer based on water depth. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made the announcement Monday, arguing that a pause is still needed to ensure that oil and gas companies implement safety measures to reduce risks - and are prepared to ha [...]

Send by merelywatching

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman says the Interior Department failed to provide adequate reasoning for the six-month moratorium. The Obama administration had halted the approval of new permits for deepwater drilling and suspended drilling at 33 exploratory Gulf wells. [...]

Send by rmarczak

PDF FILE. From the decision: "The motion for stay pending appeal is denied because the Secretary has failed to demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted; he has made no showing that there is any likelihood that drilling activities will be resumed pending appeal." [...]

Send by rufioho

Calling the Interior Department's decision an "invalid" one, Feldman wrote that a blanket suspension of all offshore drilling in depths of more than 500 feet "simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country [...]

Send by sangjmoon

The economic damage from the BP Plc spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be dwarfed by the Obama administration's moratorium on deep-water drilling, the chief executive officer of a New Orleans business group said. [...]

Send by tcbishop12

The Obama administration will take another crack today at imposing a moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf Coast. "The president has and continues to believe that we have to be careful with what we're doing, given the uncertainty about what happened 84 days ago." [...]

Send by freeUSCitizen

Even though a judge slapped down the Obama administration?s drilling moratorium, and the ruling was upheld on appeal, the administration has pledged to continue on until they find a way to halt offshore drilling ? purportedly until the cause of the Deepwater Horizon accident can be determined (which is like banning all trans-Atlantic [...]

Send by usbacklash

"de facto moratorium", 30000 people out of work, Corrupt Obama Administration, federal judge, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Governor Bobby Jindal, Gulf region, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, lame duck Obama Administration, likelihood of irreparable injury, misguided and dangerous moratorium, moratorium "arbitrary and capricious", moratorium pend [...]

Send by Wall Street Journal

Exxon Mobil was one of the companies affected by the administration's moratorium, having used a rig on which drilling was suspended under the ban. [...]

Send by GonzoMuckraker

The Obama administration lost its bid Thursday to maintain a six-month moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling which a federal judge ordered to be lifted last month. [...]

Send by EnviroChem

The federal judge who overturned Barack Obama's offshore drilling moratorium appears to own stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industry?including Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP prior to its April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico?according to 2008 financial disclosure reports. [...]

Send by marcoelizondo

Calls for the impeachment of Federal Judge Martin Feldman are growing louder as outrage mounts over his June 22 decision to overturn President Obama's moratorium on deep-ocean oil well drilling [...]

Send by Treehugger

Yes, the Obama administration has announced today that it is lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling, and barring a few tightened safety regulations, [...]

Send by NOLA.com

When Louisiana officials argue that the deepwater drilling moratorium imposed by the Obama administration isn't justified, not even by the unprecedented BP [...]

Send by samatayh

A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill. [...]

Send by FI5HERMAN

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge in New Orleans has blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects that was imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill. [...]

Send by Examiner.com

but there is nothing that says it cannot hold large amounts of oil company stock while deciding the fate of the crucial deepwater drilling moratorium. [...]

Send by jimbodeenie

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government will immediately appeal a U.S. judge's ruling on Tuesday against the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the oil spill. [...]

Send by pumabydesign001

Finally someone is sending the Obama administration the message that the sun does not set and rise at the will of Obama. A Louisiana court judge this morning ruled against Barack Obama's six month moratorium in the gulf for oil drilling, which would result in the loss of over 20,000 jobs. [...]

Send by HeatingOil.com (blog)

While the moratorium would halt deepwater drilling, it would not stop deepwater oil production already under way. Though ?drilling? is often used to refer [...]

Send by BuzzEdition

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled against the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a blow to the White House which had hoped the ban would provide [...]

Send by lilharut

President Obama will appeal a Federal judge's ruling lifting the six-month moratorium on drilling in Gulf of Mexico waters the President announced two weeks ago. [...]

Send by GKar975

While the EPA continues to feed its insatiable appetite for power and new regulations, it is killing American jobs in the process. From its neglect in the cleanup efforts of the oil spill devastating the fishing industry in New Orleans, to its fight for a six-month moratorium to be placed on drilling in the Gulf, people are now without jobs and can [...]