A Decade After the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Offshore Drilling Is Still Unsafe

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By GuestApr 15, 2020, 1:17 pm221 pts
Read time: 6 mins By Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Ten years ago, on April 20, 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 crew members and starting the largest ocean oil spill in history. Over the next three months, between 4 million and 5 million…

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