On October 1st, Juliet Eilperin reported on new Interior Department regulations for offshore drilling operators writing:

Energy industry officials said that they would review the regulations but that federal officials can now lift the ban on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico without fearing the consequences.

This sentence is not in quotes so it is hard to tell if the error is Eilperin’s or “energy industry officials,” but wither way it is just false to characterize President Barack Obama’s current oil drilling ban as a “deep-eater” ban. It is true that the first ban issued by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar … Continue Reading