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11 Chinese-owned coal carrier Shen Neng 1 J. M. Glionna, Ju-min Park, and Kenneth R. Weiss, “Oil Leak Threatens Barrier Reef; Australia Rushes to Protect the Sensitive Ecosystem from a Stranded Chinese Ship Carrying Heavy Fuel,” Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2010.
12 Minerals Management Service’s Alaska office hasn’t developed any guidelines K. Murphy, “Agency Faulted over Alaska Oil Drilling Policy,” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2010; http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/07/nation/la-na-alaska-drilling8-2010apr08.
13 Minerals Management Service approves permit changes J. Barry, “Oil Spill Disaster Marked by BP Mistakes from the Outset,” St. Petersburg Times, June 2, 2010; http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/oil-spill-disaster-marked-by-bp-mistakes-from-the-outset/1099273.
14 “I’ve never seen this kind of attitude” “Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster,” CBSNews.com, May 16, 2010; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/16/60minutes/
main6490197.shtml.
MAYDAY
1 “I am frightened for the country,” and Crist’s “bigger than we can fathom” C. Woodward, “A Containable Accident, Then Suddenly a Crisis,” Associated Press, April 30, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10513415.
2 “This is the worst possible thing” H. Mohr and Cain Burdeau, “Coast Guard Considers Lighting Oil Spill on Fire,” Associated Press, April 28, 2010; http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/04/28/oil-spill-gulf.
3 “I’d hate to think” and related quotes “Oil Leak Poses Risk of a Lost Generation on Louisiana Coast,” Agence France-Presse, May 3, 2010; http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Oil_leak_poses_risk_of_a_lost_generation
_on_Louisiana_coast_999.html.
4 Captain Doogie H. Allen G. Breed and Holbrook Mohr, “Another Week at Least of Unabated Gulf Oil Geyser,” Associated Press, May 3, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10531316
5 “When you kill that food chain,” and “We should be fine” K. McGill, “A Murky Picture as Seafood Industry Eyes Oil Slick,” Associated Press, May 3, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10536472.
6 Volume and value of Gulf catch “Mobile Baykeeper Says BP Spill Could Destroy Most Productive Fishery in the World,” Energy Weekly News, May 14, 2010; http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mobile-baykeeper-says-bp-spill-could-destroy-most-productive-fishery-in-the-world-92497804.html.
7 “What BP’s doing is throwing,” and “It’s probably easier to fly,” and “It’s not a spill, it’s a flow,” and twenty dead turtles H. Mohr and Allen G. Breed, “Another Week at Least of Unabated Gulf Oil Geyser,” Associated Press, May 3, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10531316.
8 The Economist argues, and statistics attributed to the Congressional Research Service and National Research Council “Deep Trouble: The Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico,” The Economist, May 8, 2010; http://www.economist.com/node/16059948.
9 Thomas Friedman writes T. Friedman, “No Fooling Mother Nature,” New York Times. May 4, 2010; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/opinion/05friedman.html.
10 John Kerry quote and Republican governors withdrawing support C. Babington, “Bid to Enact Energy Bill Might Survive Gulf Spill,” Associated Press, May 6, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10569505.
11 Republican climate science denial, and Bob Inglis quoted “GOP Victory May Be Defeat for Climate Change Policy,” NPR’s All Things Considered, October 23, 2010; http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=130776747.
12 History of tanker wrecks affecting birds Joanna Burger, Oil Spills, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
13 Exxon’s CEO didn’t care if the booms contained the oil Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, June 14, 2010.
14 “We may … lose dozens of vulnerable fish species” “Dozens of Fish Species in Danger in US Oil Leak,” Agence France-Presse, May 31, 2010; http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Dozens_of_fish_species_in_danger_in
_US_oil_leak_expert_999.html.