{"id":72219,"date":"2026-04-20T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/climate-groups-sue-us-government-over-approval-of-new-bp-project-in-gulf-of-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:57:44","slug":"climate-groups-sue-us-government-over-approval-of-new-bp-project-in-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/climate-groups-sue-us-government-over-approval-of-new-bp-project-in-gulf-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company\u2019s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP\u2019s huge new ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico, 16 years to the day since the company\u2019s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in US history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/20\/lawsuit-new-bp-oil-project-gulf-of-mexico\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company\u2019s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP\u2019s huge new ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf &#8230; <a title=\"Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/climate-groups-sue-us-government-over-approval-of-new-bp-project-in-gulf-of-mexico\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}