The Recurring Re-Oiling of Horn Island: A Model of BP’s “Disaster on the Installment Plan”

More than 16 months after BP’s Macondo Well began spewing 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, it still reeks of oil on Horn Island – a long narrow strip of undeveloped land just off the Mississippi coast. You can smell the oil, and you can see it, too. Fresh, gooey tar … Continue reading The Recurring Re-Oiling of Horn Island: A Model of BP’s “Disaster on the Installment Plan”