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A former senior engineer on board a Transocean drillship in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has filed a civil lawsuit alleging the offshore drilling contractor and its business partners put profits and production over safety by failing to disconnect from a deepwater well in time as a hurricane was bearing down on them last October.
The plaintiff in the lawsuit, Christopher Pleasant, was the Sr. Subsea Supervisor on the ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Asgard in the Green Canyon area of the GOM at the time of the late October 2020 hurricane. He brought the case under the Jones Act and general maritime law and is represented by offshore injury attorneys at Arnold & Itkin, LLP. Pleasant also happens to be a survivor of the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. More lawsuits from additional employees on board the rig at the time have since piled on.
28 January 2021 23:00 GMT Updated 28 January 2021 23:00 GMT in London
US President Joe Biden this week signed an executive order that will give Indigenous leaders, including those in oil and gas-rich states such as Alaska, a greater say in projects and policies that impact them.
One of four executive orders Biden signed on 26 January, Executive Order 13175 charges all US executive departments and agencies with engaging in “regular, meaningful and robust consultation” with Tribal officials in the development of federal policies that have Tribal implications.
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Biden Effects Regulatory Freeze, Revokes Trump Actions, Rejoins Paris Agreement
President Joe Biden just hours after his inauguration effected an immediate freeze on several Trump-era deregulatory actions that directly affect the power sector, and revoked a long list of rules and executive actions affecting the bulk power system.
The president on Jan. 20 also kickstarted America’s return to the Paris Agreement, sending a brief letter to the United Nations (UN) that accepts every “article and clause” within the landmark international climate agreement.