“Private Practice” star Kate Walsh was the celebrity advocate on Capitol Hill who came into town to mark the one-year anniversary of the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which caused last year’s Gulf Oil Spill.
Walsh recalled what it was like when she first heard news of the spill.
“I was devastated, it was sort of like a sucker punch, and the frustration that I think everyone felt of not being able to stop it,” the actress told Yeas & Nays. “It was insane to me that it went on as long as it did, but it’s also humbling and informative in that, look, in this day in age, when we can send somebody to the moon, and we can talk on a phone that we take everywhere and watch TV on our watches, that nature is still there and we can’t go and drill without accidents happening–it’s just dangerous and it’s dirty.”
Walsh has done advocacy work for ocean-protection group Oceana for several years and visited the Tampa Bay area several months after last year’s spill. She’s spending two days in the District in meetings on Capitol Hill and will also tour the White House.
