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by Sasha Chavkin ProPublica, Feb. 2, 2011, 3 p.m.
Gulf spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg today released a draft of his long-awaited methodology for deciding payments on final claims for damages from the BP oil spill 2013 and has endorsed an optimistic prediction of how quickly the region2019s economy will recover that is likely to spark controversy among claimants. [more]
NPR: The presidential commission investigating the Gulf oil spill called government officials and scientists to account Monday in Washington. Some of those officials said the government and the oil industry were unprepared for such a catastrophic event, and they said the nation needs a better plan to deal with big spills.
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