# Since Deepwater US still vulnerable

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**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/since-deepwater-us-still-vulnerable/55077 "2020-04-20T20:19:38Z")\
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> **[Ten Years After Deepwater Horizon, U.S. Is Still Vulnerable to Catastrophic...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html?searchResultPosition=2)**
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> Members of the bipartisan commission created to investigate the spill say Congress and the Trump administration have failed to take safety seriously.

> But in lengthy interviews this month, every member of the bipartisan panel, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, accused the Trump administration of putting American waters, coastlines and wildlife in harm’s way by weakening safety and environmental regulations while pushing to expand oil drilling in nearly all American waters.
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> They also accused Congress of a near-complete failure to adopt their recommendations on drilling safety.