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BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but for the US a decade later, it's business as usual

  • Written by David M. Uhlmann, Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and Director, Environmental Law and Policy Program, University of Michigan
BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but for the US a decade later, it's business as usualPools of floating crude oil at the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, April 27, 2010.Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

The largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history began ten years ago, on April 20, 2010. A massive explosion killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, and a blowout spewed more than 3 million barrels of oil...

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