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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- House Republicans said they want to know why the White House banned deep-water drilling after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Obama administration established a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion at a BP oil rig in April 2010 killed 11 rig workers and led to a massive oil spill. The ban was lifted in October 2010.
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, said the six-month ban was in contrast to scientific assessments and forced energy explorers overseas.
"Americans, especially those in the Gulf, deserve answers as to how these policy decisions were made, who made them and if they were actually based on sound science," Hastings said in a statement.
Hastings said at least seven experts from the National Academy of Engineers said a moratorium wouldn't "measurably" reduce the risk of another oil spill.
Critics of U.S. domestic energy policy say the federal government isn't doing enough to ensure energy security. They want more land opened to drilling operations.
More than 21 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, believed to hold as much as 423 million barrels of oil and possibly more than 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, went on the auction block in December.
U.S. President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address Tuesday, said U.S. oil production was at its highest level in nearly a decade.
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