Our view: Obama was too quick to accept BP's low-ball estimate of the oil spill's size
October 10, 2010
Days after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, officials at BP were still assuring the Obama administration their estimates showed the blown-out well was only leaking about 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the surrounding waters. That was the figure the administration initially used to describe one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, even though other government experts and independent scientists were already warning that the spill was likely much larger than oil company officials were letting on… http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-oil-spill-20101010,0,3836793.story
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