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On the recordDecember 8, 2015
11 workers lost their lives because of just incredibly shoddy oversight and regulation of the deep water drilling.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Highlighting the consequences of poor regulation in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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