According to Oliver Houck, a Law Professor at Tulane University

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Multiple Choice

According to Oliver Houck, a law professor at Tulane University who studied the BP disaster, the disaster was the result of ____.

• A)the use of risky technology without proper vetting through existing laws and policies
• B)declining energy use and therefore revenues for the major petroleum companies
• C)the use of legally approved but outdated technologies
• D)a lack of laws and policies that could have prevented this type of major oil spill

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