Why haven't we heard more about this?

Former NOAA official: Obama could have prevented Gulf disaster with controlled burn.

As someone who was born, raised, and lived in Louisiana for 22 years, I am outraged over how this spill was handled. I read this Gouget article when it first came out in May of 2010, then watched it go unmentioned by the press. In my Environmental Law class, I was disappointed but unsurprised to learn that none of the ultra-opinionated young men and women of the class had even heard this story. One particularly unkempt young man even accused me of making the story up. My speculation about why this story didn't make news is that BP agreed to take the fall in the media in exchange for being protected from bankruptcy by the damages agreements. Fishy, fishy stuff...