Groups challenge Lease Sale 218 citing no lessons learned from Gulf disaster
ATLANTA, GA–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2011. The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200 million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to a lawsuit filed today in D.C. federal court by conservation groups. In deciding to proceed with Lease Sale 218 on…
