Research Catalog

Title

BP blowout : inside the Gulf oil disaster / Daniel Jacobs.

Author

Jacobs, Daniel (Professor),

Publication

• Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xii, 192 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Alternative Title

• British Petroleum blowout
• Inside the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster
• Inside the Gulf oil disaster

Subject

• 2010
• 2010
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill (2010)
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Natural Resource Extraction
• Emergency management > Mexico, Gulf of
• Emergency management
• Gulf of Mexico
• Liability for oil pollution damages > United States
• Liability for oil pollution damages
• NATURE > Natural Disasters
• NATURE > Natural Resources
• Oil spills > Management
• Oil spills > Mexico, Gulf of > Management
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index.

ISBN

• 9780815729082
• 0815729081

LCCN

2016479990

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library