“Offshore drilling” on The Daily Caller

Gulf Coast residents reported serious economic, environmental and emotional fallout from the BP oil spill, with vast majorities concerned about long-term negative effects on the area’s tourism, seafood safety and more. (more)

A US Congressional committee has agreed measures that would ban BP from new offshore drilling for seven years. The House committee on natural resources voted in favour of precluding companies with poor safety records from offshore oil exploration permits. (more)

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The White House’s “National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling” finished its first set of hearings Tuesday with its chairmen indicating they would encourage the administration to rethink its moratorium on offshore drilling. Testimony and public comments from locals slammed not only the moratorium, but also federal obstructionism on key engineering projects and the use of one chemical oil dispersant. (more)

The Interior Department has issued a new offshore drilling moratorium that is different, but not very different, from the one blocked recently by a New Orleans federal judge. (more)

The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission will hold its first public hearings in New Orleans starting Monday. (more)

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late Thursday afternoon against the Obama administration in the ongoing legal battle over a moratorium on drilling for oil in offshore waters. The quick ruling came as a surprise, since Judge W. Eugene Davis had told the overflowing courtroom at the conclusion of the hearing that the decision would be handed down early next week. (more)

Missed warning signs (more)

Less than four months after President Barack Obama took office, his new administration received a forceful warning about the dangers of offshore oil drilling. (more)

Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, a key Democrat on the Senate energy committee, blasted Obama’s top offshore drilling official for the administration’s ongoing ban of deepwater drilling in the Gulf Coast, charging the decision could cost her home state more than 300,000 jobs. (more)

U.S. officials said Tuesday that BP PLC was collecting so much oil from its broken well a mile under the Gulf of Mexico that it didn’t have a big enough boat to hold it—the latest in a series of miscalculations stoking a political backlash against BP and the global oil industry. (more)

President Obama’s ban of deepwater drilling in the Gulf Coast will likely cost tens of thousands of jobs and could even cancel out the private employment gains reported by the government for the month of May. (more)

President Obama is holding his first full White House press conference Thursday in a long time, almost a year in fact. Obama’s focus will be the oil spill in the gulf — he’s announcing a moratorium on new offshore drilling — but he’s certain to face questions on Joe Sestak’s allegations of bribery, as well as the midterm elections, Iran, the Middle East peace process, North Korea, and of course the economy. (more)

President Obama is planning to announce tougher safety requirements for offshore oil drilling and will most likely call for more rigorous inspections for such operations, administration officials said. (more)

Congressional pressure on federal agencies, especially the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, is likely to lead to tighter rules for the oil and natural gas sector. (more)

The chief U.S. oversight official for offshore oil drilling resigned today, four weeks after a rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers, sank the vessel and triggered leaks that have spewed millions of gallons of crude into the sea. (more)

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Scientists and environmentalists believe the U.S. government’s estimate of the oil flow from the leaking Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico is unrealistically low, according to reports. (more)

If you think that environmentalists are lamenting the Gulf oil spill, think again. (more)

BP says that the offshore drilling accident that is spewing thousands of barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico could cost the company several hundred million dollars. (more)

The oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico is sending ripples through Florida and national politics, giving Gov. Charlie Crist a reason to withdraw his support for offshore drilling. (more)