{"id":548213,"date":"2010-04-30T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/holder-sends-justice-department-team-to-the-gulf-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:34:00","slug":"uh-oh-now-the-department-of-justice-is-sending-a-team-to-the-gulf-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548213","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh: Now The Department Of Justice Is Sending A Team To The Gulf Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"lingo_region\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b6b3bd1000000000035eba7\/eric-holder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"eric holder\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is an inters ting development.<\/p>\n<p>First it was SWAT teams, and now it&#8217;s the DOJ. This is not your typical environmental situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>,  <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 30<\/span> \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ &#8212;  Attorney General <span class=\"xn-person\">Eric Holder<\/span> announced  today that he is dispatching a team of attorneys from multiple divisions  within the Justice Department to <span class=\"xn-location\">New Orleans<\/span> to meet with the U.S. Attorney and response teams and to monitor the  oil spill in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Gulf of Mexico<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The British Petroleum oil spill has already cost lives and created a  major environmental incident,&#8221; said Attorney General Holder. &#8220;The  Justice Department stands ready to make available every resource at our  disposal to vigorously enforce the laws that protect the people who work  and reside near the Gulf, the wildlife, the environment and the  American taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The team will be led by <span class=\"xn-person\">Ignacia S. Moreno<\/span>,  Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources  Division, and <span class=\"xn-person\">Tony West<\/span>, Assistant  Attorney General for the Civil Division, and will include relevant <span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> Attorneys. The combined group  from the Department plans to make a site visit and meet with  representatives from federal agencies working on the response.<\/p>\n<p>A coordinated response continues with a comprehensive oil well  intervention and spill-response plan following the <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 22, 2010<\/span> sinking of the Transocean  Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of <span class=\"xn-location\">New Orleans<\/span>. More than 1,000 personnel from  federal, state and local agencies are involved in the response effort  both on and offshore, with additional resources being mobilized as  needed.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  U.S. Department of Justice<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/holder-sends-justice-department-team-to-the-gulf-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/CDzyPpi6wvE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an inters ting development. First it was SWAT teams, and now it&#8217;s the DOJ. This is not your typical environmental situation. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; WASHINGTON, April 30 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ &#8212; Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that he is dispatching a team of attorneys from multiple divisions within the Justice Department to New Orleans to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}