The EPA's Response to the Oil Spill

No one took it seriously, that this would ever happen. And no one took like the technology of cleanup, particularly seriously. They're just like picking it up as they go along. According to Ricky Ott, and also according to some of the EPA documents, if you dig down 18 inches and you put your hand into the sand, it will come out black. So what's happened is some of the fisheries have recovered, but that's not because the oil has like gone away. It's because the oil is just sunk to the bottom of the sound. so it's still there and like presumably having some sort of impact.