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Spill Estimate Jumps

by Josh Marshall
06.15.10 | 2:04 pm

The government’s new estimate of the amount of oil being spilled into the Gulf every day is dramatically up since the estimate released on Friday. Now the estimate is 35k to 60k barrels a day, a 50 percent increase on the high end of the range.

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