The New York Times, March 3, 2009 by Debra Kahn
http://www.nytimes.com/inc_com/03greenwire-lawmakers-weigh-jail-time-for-water-polluters-9961.html?emc=eta1I
Increasing the penalties should send a message that inland waters are no less vulnerable than marine waters, said Rick Frank, a former California deputy attorney general and director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. “There was a serious concern that [Kinder Morgan] … allowed this spill to occur and didn’t bother reporting it to authorities for a seriously overdue amount of time,” Frank said. “A lot of inland waters are just as sensitive as coastal waters.”