Statements made by BP about the state of the U.S. Gulf Coast environment after the Deepwater Horizon incident are off the mark, state and federal trustees said. “The state and federal trustees, including our scientific colleagues at universities and institutions around the Gulf [of Mexico], are engaged in a rigorous, scientific process of injury assessment and are still analyzing the data, conducting studies, and evaluating what happened,” a statement emailed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on behalf of the Deepwater Horizon Trustee Council late Monday read. A cascading series of events tied to the Deepwater Horizon rig, which BP leased from Transocean, led to a spill of more than 3 million barrels of oil, about 10 times […]