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President Obama is warning of a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster” as a badly damaged oil well spewed a widening slick toward the Gulf Coast. He pledged to do everything ‘humanly possible’ to deal with the spill. (May 2).
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With Katrina comparisons inevitable, Obama plans oil spill visit
Experts say the brunt of criticism for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico should fall on BP, the British oil giant. But President Obama’s decision to visit the area soon is an indicator of potential political fall-out from what some say was a slow federal response.
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Gulf oil spill: Katrina on Obama administration's mind Los Angeles Times (blog) His boss, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, called nearly hourly for updates. “We just went,” Hayes said in a phone interview. …
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Weather hampers expanding oil spill clean up as Obama heads to Gulf environmental disaster
NEW YORK/NEW ORLEANS – Weather continued to hinder efforts to fight a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, as the BP oil company finally fessed up that the extent of the leak, which began on Earth Day after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded, may be as much as five times worse than originally thought.
Obama to Visit Oil Spill Zone
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