Bid to Delay U.S. Drilling Ban Order Rejected by Appeals Court
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The U.S. government’s request to reinstate a deep-water oil-drilling moratorium while it challenges a lower-court order rejecting the ban was denied by a federal appeals panel.
The Obama administration sought to delay an order by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman that scrapped the six-month ban, imposed May 27 after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the stay after a hearing yesterday in New Orleans.