EPA Faces Mandate For New Dispersant Rules Under House Oil Spill Bill

摘要

A key House panel has approved a bill that directs EPA to toughen its requirements for the use of oil dispersants -including eliminating pre-approvals and requiring disclosure of chemical compositions - while clarifying the agency's authority in responding to oil spills, lifting economic and environmental damage caps and implementing a host of additional policy changes in response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.rnThe House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee on July 1 approved by voice vote the wide-ranging "OilrnSpill Accountability and Environmental Protection Act of 2010," H.R. 5629, the first proposal for regulatory revisions in response to the spill to emerge from a House committee.