The Deepwater Horizon disaster set new records for holding polluters to account. But it had much less impact on laws regulating offshore drilling or US oil dependence.
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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico, but some parts of this complex ecosystem fared better than others.
The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20, 2010 triggered the largest offshore oil spill in history. Ten years later, post-spill reforms are being undone and the Gulf of Mexico remains vulnerable.
A scientist who served on a national commission to review the 2010 BP oil spill explains why Trump administration efforts to loosen offshore drilling regulation pose major risks for minor payoffs.
The new movie ‘Deepwater Horizon’ depicts the blowout that triggered the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A professor of petroleum engineering assesses what the film gets right and wrong.
Hollywood turns its hand to the worst environmental disaster in US history – from which the environment is strangely missing.
As BP plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, questions can be asked about whether it has made the right changes to its working practices to avoid a repeat of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster.
Big oil companies are moving to exploit new resources such as the Arctic or the Great Australian Bight. But are they worth the risk?
Easter Sunday will mark the fourth anniversary of the BP oil well blowout in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform died and almost five million…
If anything good is to come from the devastation caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Australia’s Montara oil and gas leak the year before, it is that we learn from our mistakes…
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Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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A.A. White Professor of Law and Interim Director of the EENR Center, University of Houston Law Center
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Director, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO
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Professor in American Media and Culture, University of Kent
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Professor of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and Director, Environmental Law and Policy Program, University of Michigan
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill