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On the recordOctober 11, 2011
Just a few weeks into the BP spill, I successfully called on BP to create a $500 million scientific research fund.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey mentions his initiative for a research fund to study the spill's effects.

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