4 Years After BP Disaster Ousted Drilling Chief Warns US at Risk of Another Oil Spill
Four years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded and
killed 11 workers, causing more than 200 million gallons of oil to spew
into the Gulf of Mexico, the Environmental Protection Agency has lifted a
ban that excluded BP from new federal contracts.
In a broadcast
exclusive, we speak with Elizabeth Birnbaum, who was director of the
Minerals Management Service in the Interior Department at the time of
the Deepwater Horizon blowout. She was forced out soon after. In her
first broadcast interview since her departure, Birnbaum warns the risk
of another offshore oil drilling blowout is real. We are also joined by
Jaclyn Lopez, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.
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