Gulf Oil Spill Web of Interests

AP News - 565 days ago
Gulf Oil Spill Web of Interests
In a July 10, 2010 photo provided by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Commissioners Fran Ulmer, second left, and Donald Boesch, left, are briefed by Coast Guard Capt. Roger Lafierriere at the Incident Command Post in Houma. Oil runs so deep in American life that when President Barack Obama formed an independent commission to investigate the Gulf spill, he ran into something of an oil patch of his own. Both chairmen had stock in BP as well as broader interests in the oil industry. Ulmer, another commissioner, a university fundraiser, is chancellor at a school that received millions from BP. And Boesch, another commissioner, sold stock in Transocean.(AP Photo/University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Beth Watson)