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Studies suggest MMS knew blowout preventers had ‘critical’ flaws
The federal agency charged with setting safety standards for offshore oil exploration failed to act on at least four warnings about vulnerabilities in subsea blowout preventers, the critical safety device that failed to shut down the Gulf oil spill when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded April 20. Read more on MinnPost
On Morning Joe, Rolling Stone’s executive editor Eric Bates reports that before the explosion on Deepwater Horizon, Obama knew well in advance that it had a major problem with the regulatory structure and did nothing to reform as he’d promised to, and then after the explosion dropped the ball and knew the spill could be very big from the very beginning. 6/7/10 Video Rating: 5 / 5
Feds knew of Gulf spill risks in 2000, document shows
WASHINGTON — A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater. Read more on McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News
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