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Trump's offshore oil drilling plans ignore the lessons of BP Deepwater Horizon

  • Written by Donald Boesch, Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
imageSkimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill, May 29, 2010.NOAA , CC BY

The Trump Administration is proposing to ease regulations that were adopted to make offshore oil and gas drilling operations safer after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. This event was the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Eleven workers died in the...

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