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Associated Press: BP is mounting a new challenge to the U.S. government's estimates of how much oil flowed from the runaway well deep below the Gulf of Mexico, an argument that could reduce by billions of dollars the federal pollution fines it faces for the largest offshore oil spill in history.
BP's lawyers are arguing that the government overstated the spill by 20 to 50 percent, staffers working for the presidential oil spill commission said Friday. In a 10-page document obtained by The Assocated Press, BP says......
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New BP debate over size of spill could affect fine
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 3rd, 2010
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