Bob Graham: “Let's not make, you know, the excuse of waiting for more reports to stop doing what we know we can do safely now.”

What we hope to give to citizens is a list of the right questions to answer and some idea of the metrics to be used in evaluating the answers that you get.

We did not mean parity, that is that all companies were equally subjected to this culture of complacency.

If dramatic steps are not taken we fear that at some point in the coming years another failure will occur.

We have recommended that 80 percent of the fines and penalties that we anticipate will be assessed under the Clean Water Act be directed at Gulf restoration.