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Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, worries remain

Ten years after Deepwater Horizon, worries remain

Efforts to clean up the lingering effects of the oil spill are well underway, but secrecy and deregulation have returned to the Gulf, raising the specter of a repeat.

Deepwater BP spill: Sick fish, Gulf pollution, and human health problems
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A decade after the BP oil spill: Sick fish, Gulf pollution, and human health problems

On March 31, 2010, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich visited St. Petersburg’s Vinoy hotel to give a speech where he talked about how safe offshore oil drilling was. He was touting his book, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. On that same day, then-President Barack Obama announced he would open a lot of the nation’s …
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