Executive Order 13554 of October 5, 2010, was issued after the blowout and explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon that occurred on April 20, 2010, and resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history (Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill).
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The Administrator of EPA is hereby directed to revise Subpart G of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan to reflect the designations for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill discussed in this section.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order -- Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
After the Deep Horizon oil spill, Salazar put a six-month delay on an offshore drilling program.
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Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, has agreed to a settlement with the US government.
The disaster began with an April 20 explosion aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon that left 11 men dead.
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In 2010, President Obama appointed Mr. Reilly Co-Chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left behind more than environmental damage.
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which started with an explosion on April 20, many throughout the industry are trying to assign blame.
Its revenue and profit are rising, but the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster in 2010 has resulted in greater government oversight and regulations, it warns.
That is why, on Friday, I signed an executive order establishing the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been estimated at anywhere between 5, 000 and 100, 000 barrels of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico each day.
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This was ultimately uncovered in the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and BP was unmasked as reckless in its pursuit of oil and safety standards.
Stocks of oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf Of Mexico have been under pressure lately, as a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Now with rising prices and peak oil on the horizon, meaning high costs and eventual actual scarcities, exploration projects of this kind are now looking once again viable.
By now, everyone realizes the tremendous environmental and economic disaster that has become of the accidental explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig five weeks ago.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill began in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th with a drilling rig explosion that killed eleven platform workers and injured seventeen others.
Just look at the Minerals Management Service (MMS) in light of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill as an example of how not to run a regulatory agency.
Executive Order 13554 recognized the Gulf Coast as a national treasure and addressed the longstanding ecological decline of that region, which was compounded by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order -- Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration
With the Deepwater Horizon oil spill still saturating the sea weeks after the leak sprung, we also looked at an array of innovative solutions for cleaning up the catastrophe.
Joe Co. against Transocean over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill back to state court, raising the odds the drilling company will be dragged into litigation it was hoping to avoid.
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At the end of June, President Obama announced that Richard Lazarus would serve as executive director of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
At the same time, we have implemented comprehensive reforms in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has made offshore development safer and more responsible.
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department instituted a drilling moratorium that injected a great deal of delay and uncertainty into the drilling permitting process.
Despite the enormous advance in knowledge about the many threats to the ocean, the greatest problem facing us now with respect to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is ignorance, and with it, complacency.
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Mr Hayward, who resigned from BP in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, became a senior independent director of Glencore after the commodities group listed on the stock market in 2011.
In its filing, the U.S. Government made clear that it does not oppose the settlement reached by BP and the PSC resolving economic loss and property damage claims stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in the Spring of 2010, Italian coastal communities and local politicians mounted an offensive on offshore drilling, fearing a similar event in the Mediterranean.
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Washington (CNN) -- A former BP engineer has been charged with destroying 200-plus text messages about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including one concluding that the undersea gusher was far worse than reported at the time.
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