A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater horizon oil blowout

In April 2010, an explosion aboard the BP drill rig Deepwater Horizon killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill ever in American waters. Initially, government officials and BP officers denied the situation was serious. As details of the spill volume, and of damage to Gulf of Mexico fisheries, became known, panic set in. President Obama called the spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced”.

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