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Center for Biological Diversity: BALTIMORE— Under an agreement approved today in U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect endangered Rice’s whales and other imperiled marine species from harmful oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, federal agencies agreed to seek better ways to protect the endangered Gulf of Mexico Rice’s whale from harmful oil and gas drilling.
Six groups submitted a petition today to BOEM calling on the agency to end a routine practice of fast-tracking offshore oil and gas projects.
Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Six environmental groups submitted a petition today to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management calling on the agency to end a routine practice of fast-tracking approval for offshore oil and gas projects. The Interior Department first adopted a “categorical exclusion” for oil and gas activities in 1981, allowing exploration and development plans to win approval for much of the Gulf of Mexico without undergoing the site-specific analysis normally required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
A USA TODAY analysis of federal data found that railway incidents requiring nearby residents to flee possible explosions or toxic fumes are rare.