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Remove BP From Oil Spill Efforts

[The post below originally appeared at - and was written by the authors of - Washington's Blog.]BP was criminally negligent in drilling the well which blew out. See this, this, this,this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. It has bungled everything it has done since. Indeed - as discussed below - it has made things worse. And BP has tried to cover up its blunders by lowballing the spill estimates, keeping reporters out of areas hardest hit by the oil (and threatening to arrest them if they try to take pictures), hiding dead birds and other sealife and using dispersants to hide the amount of spilled oil (the dispersants are only worsening the damage caused by the spill).Given the enormous stakes (don't forget that we are starting a potentially "extremely active" hurricane season), why are we letting BP continue to be in charge of containment operations? Remember, there is probably damage beneath the sea floor...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 17, 2010 (boomark / email).