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Calculating the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill
Calculating the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill. President Obama was quoted today saying, “We learned overnight that efforts to stop the well through what’s called a ‘static kill’ appear to be working and that a report out today by our scientists shows that the vast majority of spilled oil has been dispersed or removed from the water,” the president told the AFL-CIO executive committee at the labor union’s meeting in Washington.”