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BP blowout : inside the Gulf oil disaster
- 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
- Inside the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster
- British Petroleum blowout
- Inside the Gulf oil disaster
- Subject
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill (2010)
- 2010
- 2010
- Liability for oil pollution damages > United States
- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
- Oil spills > Mexico, Gulf of > Management
- Emergency management > Mexico, Gulf of
- Emergency management
- Liability for oil pollution damages
- Oil spills > Management
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Natural Resource Extraction
- NATURE > Natural Disasters
- NATURE > Natural Resources
- Gulf of Mexico
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-186) and index.
- Contents
- Mayday in the Gulf -- The blowout -- The environmental and human toll -- Behind the scenes in Washington -- The claims and the controversies -- The legal battles with the feds -- The environmental trial of the century -- The cost -- The spin games -- Myth v. Reality -- The mother of all restorations -- Have we learned or only failed?
- ISBN
- 9780815729082
- 0815729081
- 9780815729099 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016479990
- OCLC
- ocn936533785
- SCSB-1885608
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library