Acrimony Behind the Scenes of Gulf Oil Spill

NYT: Richard Lynch was walking down the hall in BP's crisis command center in early May when some engineers rushed up, bearing bad news. "We've lost the cofferdam," they said. In fact the cofferdam, a 100-ton, four-story-high steel dome that the company had lowered to try to contain the flow of oil from its out-of-control well, had become clogged with icelike crystals and was rising in the water, full of flammable gas and oil. "I said: 'What the hell do you mean you've lost ......

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