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Jay Rockefeller: Transocean's cold and calculated efforts to avoid taking full responsibility for their actions--or, rather…

On the recordJune 29, 2010
Transocean's cold and calculated efforts to avoid taking full responsibility for their actions--or, rather, inactions--shines a very bright light on a serious problem, which is a lack of accountability and equal treatment under the law.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Criticism of Transocean's attempts to limit liability for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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