In the summer of 2010, several months after an explosion and fire on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana killed 11 crew members, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. publicly declared, “We will not forget the price that those workers paid.”
Holder dispatched a team of top DOJ lawyers to New Orleans to begin looking at the potential for civil and criminal claims rooted in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig and ensuing oil spill an environmental disaster that would soon become the worst in the nation’s history. The daily video images of the well, gushing oil, captivated the nation for weeks.
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