Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Executive Order - National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, 22 May 2010, established the Commission with a mandate to analyse the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and to recommend options for future. 

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (2010) The History of Offshore Oil and Gas in the United States (Long Version). Washington, DC. See also Staff Working Paper N0.22, 2010, p. 13 (hereinafter. Commission, History of Offshore). 

C. Cleveland, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, in Encyclopedia of Earth, at http //www.eoearth.org See, for example. Deepwater Horizon Court-Supervised Settlement Program at http //www.deepwa-... 

Final Report, National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (January 11, 20ir) (http //www.oilspillcommission.gov/), and staff working papers, (often referred to as the Presidential Commission ). 

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Selected Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service (May 27,2010). 

This issue has come under particularly close scrutiny following the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. At the time of the incident, the safety regulation in place for the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States took the form of a prescriptive, standards-based regime. The report of the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Blowout includes a summary of the development of the safety case approach in the nuclear, chemicals, aviation, and offshore oil and gas industry (National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling 2011b, 69) and points out that the fatality rate in the offshore oil and gas industry in the United States is at least four times the fatality rate in European jurisdictions that have operated for several decades under safety case... 

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Report to the President. January 2011. 

United States Geological Survey (USGS) http //www.usgs.gov/ (accessed July 11,2010). Self-described as the Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the enviromnent. Current topics of national and international concern are exemplified in the links to the USGS Responds to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill at http //www.usgs.gov/deepwater horizon/ (accessed March 27, 2011) and the eruption of the Iceland Volcano, Eyjafjallajokull at http //volcanoes.usgs.gov/publications/2010/ice-land.php (accessed March 11,2011). 

Xia K, Hagood G, Childers C, Atkins J, Rogers B, Ware L et al (2012) Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Mississippi seafood from areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Environ Sci Technol 46 5310-5318... 

Authoritative in-depth description of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be found in the Deepwater Horizon Study Group Report (DHSG, 2011), the BP Commission Report (2011) and the USDOI Report (2010). 

Gauglitz JM, Zhou H, Butler A (2012) A suite of citrate-derived siderophores from a marine Vibrio species isolated following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. J Inorg Biochem... 

Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953 as amended in 1978, Public L. 95-572, 92 Stat. 629 (1978) Public L. 212, Gh. 345, 67 Stat. 462 (1953) National Gommis-sion on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Deep Water 60-62 (2011). 

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