Dr. Lubchenco had stated that that MMS had underestimated the environmental impacts, had cherry-picked the data to under...
I cannot put into words my horror at the extent of this tragedy that could change the fundamental makeup of Gulf Coast c...
this process has relegated these two agencies, and in my opinion, to the back bench--an egregious mistake that could hav...
the determination of the size of the spill can make a material difference, in terms of mitigation, could it not?
Absolutely, the taxpayers should not be on the hook for assuming the financial responsibilities of this clean-up and to ...
what I find confounding about this entire crisis is the fact that these are, sort of, fundamentals that should have alre...
Well, for example, the use of a containment dome was listed as part of their strategy in the exploration plan for respon...
Thank you.
I do want to acknowledge that BP and Mr. McKay have fully cooperated with our inquiry, and have not tried to get out of ...
But the U.S. Government has a responsibility for protecting the public safety that is more important.
It feels like you are making it up as you go along, that no one really knows what will plug this well.
Now, BP did file a Regional Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico, and in that plan, the worst-case scenario that you pre...
The relief well has been held out as the ultimate solution if everything else fails.
It does not make a lot of sense at first blush to have one agency responsible for approving the plan if it is above the ...
I think there was an Area Response Plan for an oil-related incident just in March off the coast of Maine.
We will ask what the government and industry could have done differently to avoid this catastrophe.
I think the regulations should be looked at, and anything that would make this a lower probability event and safer shoul...
This catastrophe is the first spill to be classified as a Spill of National Significance since that term was first coine...
