• Sun Herald, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:52 PM

BP has launched a national television-advertising campaign designed to tell the U.S. at large how it thinks it is doing in terms of its commitment to clean and restore the Gulf Coast. British Petroleum owned the Deepwater Horizon well that blew up and turned into a seafloor gusher last year. This will be its second national campaign since the spill, when 206 million gallons of crude oil gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico, making it the largest offshore release of oil in American history and one of the worst environmental disasters -- 19 times more oil than was spilled from the Exxon Valdez in 1989.

Like the first campaign, 2010's “Voices of BP,” the new spot features employees promising to help the Coast recover. In the latest campaign, BP is providing an update and again featuring employees.

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