Current Event: Deep Water Horizon Issue

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Lisa Friedman. Ten Years after Deepwater Horizon, U.S. Is Still Vulnerable to Catastrophic Spills. 2020. Retrieved from /2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html
This article gives an account of an explosion through the Deep-water Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico Washington 2010. To prevent this kind of disaster firm happening again, the United States was supposed to unleash the worst offshore oil spill. The author also states that after seven years, seven people from the bipartisan national commission decided to investigate the cause of the disaster to ensure it never occurred again. However, their suggestions were not taken into account. These members from the stated that drilling that could move farther offshore and deeper underwater could cause a similar disaster. However, leaders from Trump's administration states that the prevention technology that the government had adopted would prevent the occurrence of such a disaster. This was an accident that destroyed the lives of people and the progress of the oil industry in the U.S (Lisa). The author also states that American has promised to make the Gulf of Mexico more secure. Companies have also come up with strategies of ensuring their operations than safer than before. The author also gives the interview analysis of a member of the bipartisan panel who accused the administration of Trump of endangering the lives of the wildlife and American coastlines. The individual states that the administrated had weakened the environmental and safety regulations of the U.S. the country was still expanding the ...