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The Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) crew is actively working at Lake Tahoe near Camp Richardson after multiple vessels capsized or grounded due t ...
The Deepwater Horizon Explosion was one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, but how did it happen and ...
The funding for 10 restoration projects is part of cleanup efforts tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
There are a few stories that I often tell when the subject of leadership in disasters is discussed. I figured I’d put them ...
revisited the devastating explosion aboard BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig more than 15 years ago — exposing the systemic failures that led to the disaster and the massive oil spill that followed.
THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE ... KILLING 11 PEOPLE AND LEADING TO THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY. MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF OIL SPEWING FOR ...
The BP disaster is still the largest marine oil spill in history. In the months after, local lawmakers, like then-state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, were sounding the alarm on how bad it was.
“Fifteen years have passed since the BP oil spill disaster crippled my Louisiana community,” Justin Solet, a United Houma Nation member who worked on oil rigs until the spill pushed him into ...
While the spill did have an initial chilling effect ... “Fifteen years after the BP oil disaster, the scars still linger across the Louisiana and Texas coasts — scars on our wetlands, our ...
NEW ORLEANS — Sunday marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, when a massive explosion on a BP-operated oil rig claimed 11 lives and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history.