Brussels, 13/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - Though it has recommended stricter gas and oil exploration and extraction rules, the European Commission appears to have given up hope of the moratorium on new offshore oil drilling in EU waters it had hoped for while awaiting the results of the investigation into the explosion on the BP oil platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April which brought an unprecedented oil spillage and environmental damage. On 12 October, the United States...