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BP's legacy will linger for decades. Peoples' lives were irreparably harmed. Environmental contamination is severe. Crude oil alone harms human health. Corexit dispersants contain hazardous carcinogens like 2-BTE (2-butoxyethanol).
Dangers they pose depend on length and amount of exposure. Children, pregnant women, the elderly and infirm are most vulnerable. No one's immune. Drinking toxic water or eating contaminated seafood assures any number of current and future health problems.
Blame it on America's rage to drill and irresponsible oil giants like BP. They do it recklessly with no regard for worker safety, environmental protection, or human health.
The company's known for having the industry's worst safety and environmental record. It's responsible for numerous willful negligence incidents. Some cause deaths and injuries. All harm human health and are environmentally destructive.
Only profits matter, not social responsibility or legal obligations. BP's a serial scofflaw. Regulatory laxity and political Washington complicity let it pollute freely with impunity. Once a violator, always one, and it goes way beyond BP. America's a scofflaw's paradise.
On April 19, investigative journalist Greg Palast headlined, "BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill," saying:
Eco-Watch.org "located an eyewitness with devastating new information" about BP covering up a Caspian Sea blowout. Rig workers back the account.
At issue was cutting corners irresponsibly. Coverup let BP replicate its shortcut in America's Gulf. In September 2008, BP's first blowout occurred off Baku, Azerbaijan's coast.
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