BP Oil Spill - Deepwater Horizon

On Oct. 20, this will be a disaster that has taken one company 7 months to fix. Just at the beginning of this month a permanent cap was placed to stop the flow of oil... Wow, way to go BP!!
So I've been reading various different articles about the disaster ranging from a new "safety unit" to the many lawsuits that will soon be underway. I understand that BP is now under the new leadership of Bob Dudley, but with how the initial situation was handled, it makes me wonder how successful and how proactive this new safety unit will be? It took the company so long to respond that I barely have faith in this unit to have superb performance.
Two other articles that I read discussed the many lawsuit that will take place against BP. According to an article from The Washington Post, more than 300 lawsuits have been filed against BP. Geesh! These lawsuits could go on for years. Another article from the New Orleans Associated Press says that there's a court filing asking to delay the trial to Feb. 2012.
I've been learning more and more about this disaster. Like Kyle Schonekas, the attorney for Transocean, said in The Washington Post, I do agree that these lawsuits can go on for at least 10 years. I think from the 3 articles I read the media is really emphasizing the litigation that will be going on. In the article from CNN about the new safety unit, it just seems that it was more "this is what it is" and "we'll keep you updated" whereas the article I read about the lawsuits was a bit more detailed. I believe that the good and the not so good of the situation should be covered equally. The new safety unit is the right now... these lawsuits are years in the making. I think the media should cover the right now because that's what matters at the moment. We've had such a negative light about BP, not saying that some shouldn't, that when there's a shimmer of good its kinda like "yea whatever, we'll see." I have my doubts about this new unit but I'd like to read more about it to see if they'll really do what they say they're going to do... I hope for BP's sake they do.