Congressman Charles Boustany met today in Washington, D.C., with James Watson, Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. He says he expressed his "concerns about the continuing need to focus on the safety of all offshore workers off the coast of South Louisiana."
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The brother of one of the 11 workers killed on the Deepwater Horizon rig last year knows Gulf offshore drilling is important to his home state of Louisiana, but he wants Congress to keep pressuring the oil and gas industry to improve safety.