John Bresland, former chairman and current board member of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), spoke with EHS Today about the board’s investigation into the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the ...

The Justice Department is suing Transocean – owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that blew up in the Gulf of Mexico last year – to force compliance with subpoenas issued by a federal agency ...

In addition to releasing preliminary findings of CSB's investigation of the April 20, 2010, explosion and fire that occurred on BP's Macondo oil rig, which resulted in 11 worker deaths and a massive ...

HOUSTON, Nov. 9-- The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and a federal Joint Investigation Team (JIT) are discussing who gets direct access during a forensic analysis of the Deepwater ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans has upheld a federal safety board’s right to investigate the role of Transocean Deepwater Drilling Corp. in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil ...

A lawyer for Transocean tried to cut off the last of several investigations into the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster Wednesday, arguing in Houston federal court that one agency did not have ...

The Interior Department has hired a Norwegian firm to inspect the giant subsea device that failed to prevent the Macondo oil and gas well from exploding on April 20, although the same firm earlier ...

It also questions whether the Deepwater Horizon was a “stationary source” under CSB’s purview even if the board had jurisdiction over incidents in federal waters. “We question the jurisdiction and ...

Early in the summer, I was in southern Louisiana speaking with a Houston attorney who represented business owners in the area. We compared BP's Gulf disaster with the 2005 explosion at its Texas City ...

Offshore oil and gas regulatory changes since the 2010 Macondo deepwater oil well accident and crude oil spill do not do enough to place the onus on industry to reduce risk, nor sufficiently empower ...