Scary Number of the Day
Jun. 2nd, 2010 05:11 pm97. As in 97%. As in, OSHA records show that of all the major, 'willful' safety violations committed by major oil companies in the last several years, BP committed 97% of the violations. (That's out of nearly 800 violations.) I guess then the surprise about the oil spill is not that it happened, but that it hasn't happened 10 times already.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/doj-vs-bp.html#more
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/doj-vs-bp.html#more