The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.
5.05.2010
BP Exempted from EIS Study
WaPo reports that the EPA exempted the, now gushing, Deepwater Horizon from NEPA and and EIS:
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