BP Complaints

Video created May 25, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, April 2010. Animals from Louisiana and Mississippi, May 2010. Credit to ABC, CBS, CNN, Al Jazeera, and independent photographers & filmmakers. Music: Yakety Sax Tom Lehrer – “Pollution”

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES NEW DRILLING REGULATIONS; CHIEF REGULATOR RESIGNS Today President Obama is announcing new drilling regulations hours after Elizabeth Birnbaum resigned under pressure as head of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), the lead agency overseeing US oil and gas drilling. The MMS has come under fire for lax inspections of the Deepwater Horizon rig prior to its April 20 explosion and an Inspector General’s report that identified inappropriate behavior and industry relationships by agency officials.

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