The Biden administration has finalized the restoration of Obama-era offshore oil drilling rules, passed in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, that the Trump administration rolled back. The final rule restores the bulk of the 2016 protections, including a required analysis and investigation of any failures within three months of an incident…
the ceo of bp was the right person to testify before congress to explain why there were no blowout preventers that worked. we had a big oil spill. now we have a huge data spill, which has occurred. and he is the ceo of facebook and he has to come because no one understands the algorithms of facebook better than him. he knows how they use to gather information, and he should also know how they use to protect information from being leaked. and so he should explain what are those algorithms and how were they penetrated and other penetrations of the privacy of americans going on right now because those safeguards are not in place. if you if you had a chance to have him at a hearing there, what questions would you ask? well, i would want to know when they knew that the privacy of americans was being
three months on the gulf of mexico floor. according to a federal judge three billion barrels of oil spewed into the water damaging coastlines from florida to texas. that same judge ruled bp s gross negligence and willful misconduct were to blame for the disaster. five years later bp tells us many lessons were learned. new technology has been implemented across the industry like enhanced blowout preventers. this giant piece of gear you re looking at now, developed by bp, and it is designed to prevent another spill we re told of this magnitude. capping stack is an enormous piece of equipment up to five stories tall, weighing tons and tons. and can then be deployed, as far under water as is necessary on top of the wellhead to shut off the flow of oil, coming out of the, out of the well. reporter: but some