Texas Monthly, July 2007 Eva Rowe was a wild child from a mobile home in the Louisiana woods until March 23, 2005, when her parents were killed in a refinery explosion in Texas City. Then she became a wild child with a fancy house in Beaumont and a dogged crusader who forced BP to open up to the truth about what happened that day. John Browne of Madingley, the once hailed and now semi-disgraced former chief of BP, could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had bothered to educate himself in the folkways of southeast Texas and neighboring Louisiana before purchasing the refinery that exploded to such devastating effect on March 23, 2005. His resignation this past May occurred after a British tabloid threatened to reveal details of some possible business improprieties committed on behalf of the man who was then Lord Browne’s lover. But the real scandal was that 15 people died and 170 were injured in the explosion at his Texas City plant, allegedly the result of major company-mandated budget cuts that turned the refinery into a death trap. ... At four o'clock in the morning, Coon called his client to tell her "We got what we wanted." BP would donate $12.5 million to the Blocker Burn Unit at Galveston's University of Texas Medical Branch; $12.5 million for the Mary Kay O'Conner Process Safety Center at Texas A&M; $5 million to the college of the Mainland, in Texas City, for a safety program; $1 million to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital (James and Linda rowe's favorite charity); and $1 million to Hornbeck High, where Eva's mom had been a teacher's aide. http://www.texasmonthly.com/2007-07-01/feature4.php (subscription required)