The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the integrity of estimates that for months were inaccurate in showing how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, disclosing thousands of pages of internal e-mails written by government scientists on the project. It is a guess, a senior U.S. scientist acknowledged to his colleagues.
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The government s point man on the crisis said on Friday that the blown out well is not securely plugged to his satisfaction and that the drilling of the relief well long regarded as the only way to ensure that the hole at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico never leaks oil again must go forward.
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