Trump, Scott Angelle rolled back blowout preventer rules in 2019. Biden wants to revive them.
(opens in new window)The set of standards — best known as the “well control rule” — was implemented by the Obama administration in 2016 in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, which killed 11 people and released more than 3 million barrels of crude oil.
Source: The Advocate