Sam bory, executive director of the energy policy institute at the university of chicago. He says we're just one cataclysmic error from having the next biggest oil spill. Bory: "The us. Ato oil and gas industry is still vulnerable to low probability, high impact, catastrophic incidents"
An energy expert explains why offshore oil spills keep happening and whether they’ll ever stop.
Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala and Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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