Putting The BP Oil Spill Into Context: A Governance Challenge

Mike Magee MD Next week, at the direction of the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine will be convening a two day conference to assess the human health effects of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (1) After listening to all the experts, I’ll be moderating a panel exploring […]

Tom Linden on the BP Disaster

The blowout of the BP exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico may be the biggest environmental disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. Eleven workers died on the Deepwater Horizon platform, and no one knows the ultimate cost to the environment and to the local economies of the Gulf states and the rest […]