Adm. Thad Allen Available to Discuss Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

RAND Corporation Senior Fellow Adm. Thad Allen, the former commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard who served as national incident commander for the federal government's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is available for interviews to discuss the anniversary of the event.

Among the topics he can discuss:

• The Gulf Coast one year later
• The difficult challenges the nation faced in responding to and recovering from the spill
• What lessons have we learned?
• Requirements for oil containment systems for new permitted drilling operations
• Key elements in managing crises and complex events based on response operations following Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill