Environmental-Disaster

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence

| Importance: 9/10

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico marked the beginning of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The explosion killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill that would leak approximately 134 million gallons of oil over 87 days. The disaster …

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