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Today lawmakers answered POGO's call to investigate the role of the
Interior Department's Minerals Management Service's (MMS) in the
Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster. As more information
surrounding the Deepwater disaster becomes available, POGO and
others in the press have raised...
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Monday, and more set to follow today. The suits allege that BP,
Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Energy Services and Cameron
International were negligent in failing to properly inspect and
maintain the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20,
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(July 30) -- BP's incoming CEO is trying to calm fears in the Gulf
Coast over the Deepwater Horizon disaster by laying out his
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technically takes the helm of the troubled British oil giant. Bob
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INFLUENCE GAME: Govt regulators hired by companies
At a 2005 workshop, a senior official in the U.S. government's
Minerals Management Service raised concerns about ultra-deepwater
drilling and included the bullet point, "Few or no regulations or
standards." Within two years, Jim Grant left his post as chief of
staff of the government's Gulf of Mexico region to take a job with
BP PLC — one of the companies his former agency
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one example of the revolving door between the Interior Department's
MMS and the oil industry, which increasingly has the attention of
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Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group: Center for Public Integrity: Coast Guard logs contradict White House Deepwater timeline
From our colleagues at the Center for Public Integrity:The Coast
Guard grasped the potential threat of a catastrophic spill within
hours of the April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon
drilling rig, estimating that 8,000 barrels a day of crude oil
could possibly gush out of the well in the event of a complete
blowout, according to Coast Guard logs. The logs, obtained by the
Center for Public Integrity and shared with The New York Times,
provide a detailed account of the early days of the BP disaster and
identify events that were omitted from the White
House’s official timeline of the crisis.The
hour-by-hour documents reveal that first responders almost
immediately understood the environmental threat to the Gulf of
Mexico after the rig exploded and Coast Guard officials detected
th...
