Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

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The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.

Author(s): William Freudenburg, Robert Gramling
Edition: 1st
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 269

Contents......Page 6
Prologue......Page 10
1 A Question for Our Time......Page 16
2 The Macondo Mess......Page 24
3 Stored Sunlight and Its Risks......Page 36
4 Colonel of an Industry......Page 78
5 Barons and Barrels......Page 90
6 Off the Edge in All Directions......Page 106
7 “Energy Independence”......Page 128
8 To Know Us Is to Love Us?......Page 144
9 Cleaning Up......Page 168
10 Today and Tomorrow......Page 186
Notes......Page 206
References......Page 218
Index......Page 240