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Internal Docs Show BP Downplayed Spill

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Worst-case estimate: 4.2 million gallons of oil per day.

As if we needed another reason to be angry at BP: Recently released internal documents reveal that the company has been publicly dishonest about its worst-case-scenario estimates for the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

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