Recent news reports seemed to perhaps partially mitigate BP's effect on polluting.

Recent news reports seemed to perhaps partially mitigate BP's effect on polluting.

Quoting from Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2007, on BP's Texas City refinery explosion in which 15 were killed and 170 injured on March 23, 2005:

"That particular unit had a long history of fires and explosions going back more than a decade, including a fire less than 24 hours before the blast. The unit was restarted anyway."

"BP leads the nation in refinery fatalities since 1995, with 10 times as many deaths as recorded at ExxonMobil."

"Government documents concerning the plant's operational procedures and safety record that were once easily accessed had vanished into the Homeland Security labyrinth. Again and again, reporters hit brick walls trying to find what had been considered basic public information a few short years ago."

"It took a small army of journalists to smoke out all this skulduggery."

"A 300-page report from an independent panel investigating BP -- and run by former Secretary of State James Baker -- criticized a 'run until it breaks' mentality."

"... damning numbers about BP fatalities and the shockingly small fines."

"... one worker who died at BP's Whiting, Indiana, refinery, OSHA fined the company only $1,625."

Trustworthy?

Gordon Wilder, Highland