| 28 July 2010

photo: US Coast Guard A new report by The Center for Public Integrity reveals that, in the hours after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught on fire, the US Coast Guard failed to follow its own internal firefighting procedures, potentially causing the rig to sink and the riser pipe, from which the majority of the oil in the Gulf spill would begin flowing, to rupture. The implications of this are pretty big, so I wholly encou... Read the full story on TreeHugger