id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cjel-3572	Brogdon, Lauren Hunt	A New Horizon?: The Need for Improved Regulation of Deepwater Drilling and the Oil Industry	2019	39	.pdf	application/pdf	17430	725	45	In  2010  alone,   the  U.S.   consumed  98.1   quadrillion  BTU.     Thirty-­‐seven   percent   of   that   consumption  was   oil,   and   twenty-­‐five   percent   was   gas.     In  fact,  the  United  States  has  averaged  792   incidents   each   year   since   2006,17   including   almost   twenty   major   spills  annually.18    Since  1964,  over  eleven  million  gallons  of  oil  have   been  spilled  in  U.S.  waters  on  the  Outer  Continental  Shelf.19    Because   of   the   degree   of   attention   and   study   that   large-­‐scale,   high-­‐profile   accidents   receive,   such  disasters   are   typically   the   catalysts   for  new   or   amended   legislation   affecting   the   energy   industry.    	cache/cjel-3572.pdf	txt/cjel-3572.txt