10 years after the disaster, oceanographers and environmental activists say that any lessons learned have since been tossed aside — and that the same risks remain as before the spill... [W]ith the Trump administration planning to drastically expand offshore drilling in the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans while rolling back safety regulations, researchers say, the industry risks another catastrophic accident... [A report by Oceana]... highlighted long-term health and economic impacts on Gulf Coast communities.

... Obama appointed Donald Boesch, a professor of marine science at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, in 2010 to serve as a member of the commission to investigate the root cause of BP's Deepwater horizon oil spill... [According to Boesch]... "From a climate change perspective, we know we have to stop using these hydrocarbons," he said. "So the question should not be: How do we lower the risk of a blowout next year? The question should be: How do we decarbonize the world, and what does that off-ramp look like?"