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Ed Markey: the disaster as a whole was due to a rather staggering series of errors by the three companies

On the recordJanuary 25, 2011
the disaster as a whole was due to a rather staggering series of errors by the three companies
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes that the disaster resulted from multiple errors by BP, Halliburton, and Transocean.

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