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“A massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster”
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A television reporter stands beside oil booms at the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana, as oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, May 2, 2010. A huge wind-driven oil slick bore down on the U.S. Gulf coast on Sunday, threatening an environmental catastrophe, and the Obama administration heaped pressure on BP to halt the uncontrolled spill from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
