Cleaning Up On the Spill.

BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion & Oil Spill, 2010; OIL spill cleanup; ENVIRONMENTAL disasters; POLLUTION control industry; MILLER Environmental Group (Company); CLEAN Harbors Inc.; MILLER, Mark; ECONOMICS; FINANCE

The article examines environmental economic aspects of the cleanup of the oil spill resulting from the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The massive environmental damage done by the spill has resulted in a huge demand in the Gulf coast region for environmental services companies such as Clean Harbors and Miller Environmental Group. Mark Miller, head of the latter company, says that the spill will result in increased funding for research and development for the pollution control industry. INSET: After the Spill, the Bill.