Senate Energy Committee Considers Offshore Reform Bills; Interior Adopts New Blowout Prevention Rules; Bromwich Takes over at New Bureau of Ocean Energy; Both East (New York) and West (Wyoming) Wary of Fracking

摘要

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on 6/24/10 on four bills to restructure the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and reform offshore drilling. They include S. 3516, the bipartisan "Outer Continental Shelf Management Reform Act" introduced by Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), which Bingaman hopes to mark up next week.