Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

by Abrahm Lustgarten

Book Overview

BP bought one company after another and then relentlessly fired employees and cut costs. It skipped safety procedures, pumped toxic chemicals back into the ground, and let equipment languish, even while Browne claimed a new era of environmentally sustainable business as his own. For a while the strategy worked, making BP one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Then it all began to unravel, in felony convictions for environmental crimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393081621
• ISBN13: 9780393081626
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.4"