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

by William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling

Book Overview

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

On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo well. For months, oil gushed into the Gulf, spreading death and destruction. Americans watched real-time video of the huge column of oil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262015838
• ISBN13: 9780262015837
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher