Politician Tasked With Oil Industry Oversight Gets a Paycheck From Big Oil | Mother Jones

Kurt would love irony. I love the irony. This is why my writing is sometimes sardonic.

The BP oil spill turned five years old on Monday, and as my colleague Tim McDonnell reported, we’re still paying the price: There’s as much as 26 million gallons of crude oil still on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. But the story of the Deepwater Horizon wasn’t just about environmental devastation—it was also a story about regulation.

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