Succeeding the sinking of Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the last phase of April 2010, Obama administration organized a big response to restrict the immense amount of oil propagating on the other side of the Gulf of Mexico. Bringing intense public curiosity and, eventually, prevalent criticism, the response conformed to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a national law that the catastrophe would soon disclose was not well understood - or even accepted - by all applicable parties.
Case A supplies a summary comprising the disaster and earlier correspondence, it discusses the development of the National Incident Command (NIC), which had obligation for directing response tasks; and explores the NIC's attempts to coordinate the actions of diverse federal entities. Case B focuses on the challenges as it sought to engage with state and local celebrities, the NIC ran into - as the crisis deepened all through the spring along the summer of 2010, an attempt that will develop increasingly complicated. Case amount 1981.0.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The Politics of Crisis Response (A) case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: February 25, 2013 PRODUCT #: HKS739-HCB-ENG
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