BP Oil Spill: American-only clean up?

Prompted by this article by Daniel Gross in Slate, in this podcast I discuss the BP oil spill and why it possibly isn’t being cleaned up as quickly or efficiently as it could be. American legislation is keeping out foreign companies that might be able to do a better clean up job. Tony Hayward being caught socialising on a yacht rather than focusing on the crisis isn’t the real issue.

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