Poisoned Legacy: The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power

On April 20 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshore drilling. But this wasnt the first time British Petroleum and its cost-cutting practices destroyed parts of the natural world. It also was not the first time that BPs negligence resulted in the loss of human life ruined family businesses or shattered dreams. From Alaska to Kansas to the Gulf journalist Mike Magner has been tracking BPs reckless path for years and in Poisoned Legacy he focuses for the first time on the human price of BPs rise to power.