In the North Atlantic, we took that off the table from any drilling exploration.
We ended up postponing leases that had been planned in the Chukchi and the Beaufort Sea, as Senator Murkowski well knows...
Our reorganization is essentially blowing up MMS and putting it into different parts of the department and separating fu...
The fact is that BP did have an oil spill response plan.
There is much more that can be done with respect to what we are doing concerning the safety requirements imposed on comp...
In fact, in Senator Menendez's State of New Jersey, there is an oil spill laboratory which looks at oil spills and how t...
I signed up for this job, I signed up for it in large part because it is, in my view, the Department of America.
We ought not to allow BP to do it by themselves.
I want to emphasize for the record that the goal of my legislation--the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Act of 2010 (S. 3...
S. 3404, also introduced by Senator Udall, to require the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclam...
There are some fundamental flaws with respect to how that organization was created.
So our job is basically to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum.
We are holding BP accountable. And that accountability effort that we have under way, we have them by the neck and we wi...
We are looking at all of those issues, and at a point in time when we can give assurance to the American people that we ...
I believe it was the correct decision. I believe it is the correct decision today, and with all due respect to the honor...
I see this incident as being a catalyst for moving forward with a gulf coast restoration program.
Our hope is, the President's hope is, that will launch the new century of conservation.
The moratorium in place does, in fact, apply to the Alaska wells and to the exploration wells Shell had proposed to put ...
