BP blowout
Subtitle: inside the Gulf oil disaster
By: Daniel Jacobs
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780815729082
Subjects: Emergency management; Management; Liability for oil pollution damages; BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; BP (Firm); Oil spills
Other titles: Inside the Gulf oil disaster; British Petroleum blowout
Description: "BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident, which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killed 11 people. The ensuing oil discharge--the largest ever in U.S. waters--polluted much of the Gulf for months, wreaking havoc on its inhabitants and the environment. Daniel Jacobs tells the story that neither BP nor the federal government wants heard: how the company and the government fell short, both in terms of preventing and responding to the disaster."--book flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mayday in the Gulf; title: The blowout; title: The environmental and human toll; title: Behind the scenes in Washington; title: The claims and the controversies; title: The legal battles with the feds; title: The environmental trial of the century; title: The cost; title: The spin games; title: Myth v. Reality; title: The mother of all restorations; title: Have we learned or only failed?