Edited sentence: Landrieu, despite being a Democrat, was an unabashed supporter of the large oil companies and their offshore drilling programs.She was accused of prior to the oil spill, overlooking the BP safety record--the worst of all the oil companies, tolerating meaningless emergency plans which turned out to be ineffective, and never asking for enough federal drilling inspectors so that the Gulf of Mexico would have the same inspector to oil well parity as other regions of the country where it was much better.The senator, along with Governor Jindal, came under criticism in June of 2010 when the worst enviornmental disaster in American history was caused by a blowout in a BP deep drilling well in the Gulf of Mexico