Thursday, June 17, 2010

BP Chief: From Oil 'Ninja' to Congressional Hot Seat


BP CEO Tony Hayward, the energy company executive who has become the face of the mammoth Gulf of Mexico oil spill, is expected to face a tough grilling by Congress today.

In a letter to Hayward earlier this week, Committee of Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif ., and Rep. Bart Stupak , D-Mich., said an investigation by the committee had found that before the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, "BP appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure."

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