60 Minutes profiles Deepwater Horizon catastrophe-while lifting some of the work from Jason Leopold
This weekend, 60 minutes ran a powerful segment on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. At the heart of the segment was the testimony of Mike Williams, one of the survivors of the rig. What you might not have noticed is the second segment had already been reported by Jason Leopold in April, even relinked here at […]
BP Flouted US Safety Rules
By Jason Leopold May 5, 2010 Editor’s Note: A common thread through recent disasters – the Wall Street financial collapse, the fatal West Virginia coal mine explosion and the huge oil spill from one of BP’s offshore rigs – has been a lack of effective government oversight. Indeed, over the past three decades as Republicans […]