The Center for Public Integrity: ENVIRONMENT: Sen. Franken Asks BP to Explain OSHA Violations

The Center for Public Integrity's May 16 story detailing hundreds of flagrant safety violations at two BP refineries continues to reverberate in Congress.

During a Senate subcommittee hearing last Thursday, Democratic Sen. Al Franken repeatedly cited the story's key finding: that BP refineries in Texas and Ohio accounted for 97 percent of "egregious willful" or "willful" citations issued to all U.S. refineries by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration between June 2007 and February ...