The BP oil spill
By: David Haugen, book editor
Series: At issue; At issue
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780737755688; 9780737755695
Subjects: Oil wells; Blowouts; Juvenile literature; BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Oil spills
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: BP spread the blame for the oil spill to its contractors / Steven Mufson and David Hilzenrath; title: America's dependence on fossil fuel is to blame for the oil spill / Jeremy Hance; title: Environmentalists are partly to blame for the oil spill / Charles Krauthammer; title: The George W. Bush administration is to blame for the oil spill / Matthew Yglesias; title: The Obama administration response to the oil spill is lacking / Jeff Crouere; title: The environmental damage from the oil spill has been downplayed / Orpheus Reed; title: The environmental damage from the oil spill has been exaggerated / Lou Dolinar; title: The oil spill may be affecting the health of clean-up crews / Elizabeth Grossman; title: The oil industry has been destroying Louisiana's environment for decades / Oliver Houck; title: The oil industry supports many Louisiana and Gulf Region economies / Joseph R. Mason; title: BP is covering up the disastrous consequences of the oil spill / Riki Ott; title: The oil spill should teach America to break its addiction to fossil fuel / Robert Zevin.