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Fish With The King

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As Gulf fishermen are forced to work for the oil company that destroyed their livelihoods, who will train Louisiana’s next generation to fish?

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environment BP Oil Spill by J. Malcolm Garcia

Eleven Lives

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The oil will have stopped gushing into the Gulf. The shoreline and the estuaries and the beaches will have been scrubbed clean by man and nature. BP and Transocean will have resumed business as usual. But the original wound will never heal. This is the story of what’s been lost.

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environment by Tom Junod BP Oil Spill

The BP Cover-Up

for Mother Jones

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BP and the government say the spill is fast disappearing—but dramatic new science reveals that its worst effects may be yet to come.

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environment BP Oil Spill by Julia Whitty

The Hunters

for vqronline.org

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I’m not writing to offer an apologia, but I have to say, life in the oilfield was wonderful.

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environment by Rick Bass BP Oil Spill

Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device

for The New York Times

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Its very name — the blind shear ram — suggested its blunt purpose. When all else failed, if the crew of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig lost control of a well, if a dreaded blowout came, the blind shear ram’s two tough blades were poised to slice through the drill pipe, seal the well and save the day. Everything else could go wrong, just so long as “the pinchers” went right. All it took was one mighty stroke.

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by David Barstow by Ian Urbina by James Glanz by Laura Dodd by Stephanie Saul general interest BP Oil Spill

Boom

for GQ

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Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them.

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environment by Sean Flynn BP Oil Spill

There Was 'Nobody in Charge'

for The Wall Street Journal

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After the Blast, Horizon Was Hobbled by a Complex Chain of Command.

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by Alexandra Berzon by Ana Campoy by Douglas A. Blackmon by Vanessa O'Connell environment BP Oil Spill

BP Decisions Made Well Vulnerable

for The Wall Street Journal

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A Wall Street Journal investigation provides the most complete account so far of the fateful decisions that preceded the blast. BP made choices over the course of the project that rendered this well more vulnerable to the blowout, which unleashed a spew of crude oil that engineers are struggling to stanch.

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by Ben Casselman by Russell Gold environment BP Oil Spill