liability for oil pollution damages

Details the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout of a BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing eleven people. The ensuing oil discharge---the largest ever in U.S. waters---polluted much of the Gulf of Mexico for months afterwards.

Tells the true story of the civil action suit that resulted when young environmental lawyer Brian O'Neill agreed to represent the fishermen of coastal Alaska in their case against the Exxon Corporation in the wake of the Exxon oil tanker spill in Prince William Sound.