House Dems request hearing on CSB report on blowout preventer

摘要

Two top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee called on Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) to hold a hearing on the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's findings on the cause of BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the panel's ranking member, and Rep. Diana DeGette (DColo.), the ranking member on the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, wrote a letter to Upton and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) this morning. The Democrats noted that the committee held 10 hearings investigating BP's role in the spill in 2010, but the Chemical Safety Board has never weighed in before Congress on the issue.