Law – through regulation, criminalization and litigation – provides key mechanisms for mitigating the harmful effects of oil disasters. At the same time, these mechanisms also enable the perpetuation of oil disasters under an extractivist imperative. This disaster tolerance is the point of departure for this article's examination of the legal response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster over the last decade. Based on a methodology that combines a social harm approach with the political ecology of Felix Guattari, we firstly present a reconceptualization of harm inflicted by oil corporations across three registers: environment, society, and subjectivity. We subsequently introduce the concept of transversal harm, which allows us to move beyond the criminal and civil damage of corporate crime and negligence and to capture the collective and continuous impact of oil extractivism, as opposed to the exceptional impact of oil disasters. Transversal harm opens new avenues for assigning corporate responsibility and reducing disaster tolerance as the by-product of environmental law.

法律——通过监管、刑事定罪和诉讼——为减轻石油灾害的有害影响提供了关键机制。与此同时，这些机制也使得石油灾难在采掘主义的要求下得以延续。这种容灾能力是本文审视过去十年对 2010 年深水地平线灾难的法律应对的出发点。基于将社会危害方法与 Felix Guattari 的政治生态相结合的方法，我们首先提出了对石油公司在三个方面造成的危害的重新概念化：环境、社会和主观性。我们随后引入了横向伤害的概念，这使我们能够超越公司犯罪和疏忽造成的刑事和民事损害，并捕捉石油开采主义的集体和持续影响，而不是石油灾难的特殊影响。作为环境法的副产品，横向危害为分配企业责任和降低容灾能力开辟了新途径。