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On the recordJune 20, 2010
We now know in retrospect that when BP in the first week was saying that the spill was only 1,000 per day that they had an internal document in the first week that said it was 1,000 to 14,000 barrels per day. They did not any -- let anyone know that.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses BP's misleading estimates of the oil spill's severity.

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