The importance of crisis communications in the era of climate change: Crisis Communications for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – By: Max Lavey, Eli Swagel, Rebecca Chiang, Elsa Frantz, and Emily Stevens

On April 20, 2010, one of the largest marine oil spills in history took place in the Gulf of Mexico, called the Deepwater Horizon. Approximately 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the deepwater oil rig – owned and operated by offshore oil drilling company Transocean...