Bush admin lax regs led to spill says lawsuit
And Obama followed right along:
Lawsuit: BP’s ‘manipulation’ of Bush administration led to spill
Oil firm BP “manipulated” the Bush administration into softening regulation of oil drilling, leading to the environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, a lawsuit filed in a Florida courtroom alleges.
The suit, which describes the Gulf spill as “an ecological Armageddon that could literally destroy the marine and coastal environment and way of life for generation of Americans,” was filed on behalf of a Pensacola Beach property developer who says he and countless other property owners along the Gulf coast will lose large sums of money as the spill devalues their properties, reports the Pensacola News-Journal.
Lawyer Mike Papantonio, an occasional TV pundit who is leading the lawsuit, makes no bones about the fact his client sees the Bush administration as being primarily responsible for the spill.
“The only way that happened was because there was a concerted effort to take all of the teeth out of regulations,” he said, as quoted at the News-Journal.</em>
Ya think?
