In response to the DWH oil spill, scientists and managers conclude that “modification of laws and policies designed to protect and restore ocean resources is needed in order to accommodate oil drilling in the deep sea and other frontiers” in A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model– http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2012.62.5.7
