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Markey: BP Refuses to Accept Flow Rate Number, Spill Size, Liability
August 25, 2010
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming issued the following news release:

BP has yet again refused to accept the most recent federal government estimate of the rate of oil that leaked from the company's Macondo well, and therefore the total estimated size of the Gulf of Mexico spill. Responding to questions from Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) on whether the company would accept the numbers reached by a scientific team de . . .

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