Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The Trump administration stopped funding for a major study to find improvements on how inspections of offshore oil and gas operations are conducted, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine announced Thursday.
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement requested the study in 2016 as part of a series of studies to be carried out by the National Academies to review the causes of the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, which resulted in an 87-day-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Times-Picayune reported.