One of the things that troubles me the most about the Transocean situation are the allegations that safety concerns from workers were ignore...
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I realize that OSHA has no formal oversight role with regard to offshore drilling.
The issue of worker safety and preventing tragedies on the job is at the forefront of all of our minds after the recent Gulf and coal mine t...
I'm outraged that, at this point, in the year 2010, 40 years after the Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed, workers still have to ...
This tragedy is a stark reminder that energy development, without proper safety and environmental precautions, can be a very dangerous busin...
The law doesn't really work unless workers are involved.
Part of workplace culture is a culture where workers do not have to fear their participation in the health and safety programs.
The dangerous circumstances that led to this explosion put workers' lives at risk. And this is simply unacceptable.
In fact, in Senator Menendez's State of New Jersey, there is an oil spill laboratory which looks at oil spills and how to contain oil spills...
There is research underway with respect to oil spill issues all of the time.
S. 3404, also introduced by Senator Udall, to require the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to take actio...
We ended up postponing leases that had been planned in the Chukchi and the Beaufort Sea, as Senator Murkowski well knows.
There is much more that can be done with respect to what we are doing concerning the safety requirements imposed on companies.
I want to emphasize for the record that the goal of my legislation--the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Act of 2010 (S. 3404)--is not to forc...
The fact is that BP did have an oil spill response plan.
We ought not to allow BP to do it by themselves.
I signed up for this job, I signed up for it in large part because it is, in my view, the Department of America.
