Agency Agreed That Spill Risk to Wildlife Was ‘Low’ - NYTimes.com

(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

The New York Times could not take the next step and explain this subtle fact:

It was the deregulatory boys of Bush who set the passive framework of going along to get along.  Eight years of this.  Now it gets blurred into the Obama watch.

Agency Agreed That Spill Risk to Wildlife Was ‘Low’ - NYTimes.com: "“If they had looked at a 30-day time span for oil reaching shore, the risk would probably have looked a lot higher and maybe triggered a more stringent review under the Endangered Species Act,” Dr. Small said. “Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like anyone at the agencies asked for that.”"