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Joe Courtney: “11 workers lost their lives because of just incredibly shoddy oversight and regulation of the deep water drilling.”

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

Editor's note · Context

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

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