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December 22, 2016

Obama pipeline safety rules face an uncertain future under Trump

  • Critics argue the inspections, repairs and leak detection systems would cost companies $600 million a year. That's almost 30 times the government's estimate of $22.5 million annually.
    • By MATTHEW BROWN and JAMES MacPHERSON
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File [enlarge]
    Workers prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio State Beach in California after a ruptured pipeline in 2015 created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years.

    BILLINGS, Mont. — President Barack Obama's administration is expected to push through long-delayed safety measures for the nation's sprawling network of oil pipelines in its final days, despite resistance from industry and concern that incoming president Donald Trump may scuttle them.


     
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