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Ryan Knutson

Ryan Knutson appears in the following:

Underreported: BP's Response to 2005 Refinery Blast

Thursday, July 08, 2010

In 2005, a blast at a British Petroleum refinery in Texas City, Texas, killed 15 people. On today’s Underreported, reporter Ryan Knutson describes the safety violations that led up to the blast, how the oil company responded to the disaster, and the parallels with the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April.