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Drilling Down
After covering the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Ian Urbina and his editors were struck by a simple question: The Gulf spill highlighted the weaknesses in oversight of offshore drilling, are there any weaknesses worth investigating in the regulation of onshore drilling?
Tags: BP Oil Spill; Gulf Oil Spill; onshore drilling; offshore drilling
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Renegade Refinery
Just weeks after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, an analysis of inspection data obtained from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that two oil refineries owned by BP accounted for a staggering 97 of the most flagrant violations found by OSHA inspectors. Most of these citation's were categorized as "egregiously willful."
Tags: Deepwater Horizon; BP; oil spill; OSHA; Gulf of Mexico
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"BP Oil Spill coverage"
MotherJones.com published "more than 500 articles" and related posts to their website during the coverage of the 2010 BP oil spill. Reporters broke news stories on the ground in Louisiana and all along the Gulf, while a Mother Jones West Coast reporter kept tabs on "what BP and its contractors knew and when they knew it."
Tags: BP; oil; Gulf Coast; oil spill; Deepwater Horizon
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Deep Trouble
The Journal's initial coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill posed many questions about the impact of the spill. It also revealed that the Deepwater Horizon rig didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch, a feature used as a last-resort protection against oil spills.
Tags: oil; Gulf Oil Spill; Deepwater Horizon; oil spill; oil rig
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Oil Spill
The New York Times' continuing coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill documents the vulnerabilities, weaknesses, loopholes, and oversight that led the disaster.
Tags: Gulf Oil Spill; oil spill; BP; Transocean; oil rig
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BP's Oil Spill: Beyond the Spin
This series provides extensive coverage of the Gulf oil spill and its effects. It exposes BP's failures to measure the amount of oil spilled and the reasons for the disaster. It also uncovers the Obama administration's inability to asses damage.
Tags: oil spill; Gulf Oil Spill; environment; BP; disaster