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Gulf oil spill: Drawn-out tempest in teacup
Harold-Brown
University of Georgia Professor Emeritus Harold Brown is a senior fellow with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and author of The Greening of Georgia: The Improvement of the Environment in the Twentieth Century. - photo by File photo
The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was called catastrophic by many. President Barack Obama declared, “This oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” The National Resource Defense Council said two years later, “A people wronged and a region scarred remains.”Five years later, what remains of this “worst environmental disaster” and “scarred” region?There were many projections, estimates and guesses — before and after the well was finally capped — about how many millions of barrels of crude spilled into the Gulf.
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