Spill panel: Federal confusion lost public trust

September 28, 2010 by  



Plaquemines Parish, La. President William Nungesser, right, with Richard Harrell of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, makes his remarks at a National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill and Offshore Drilling meeting on response following the BP spill, impacts on the Gulf and approaches to long-term restoration in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP – The Obama administration’s repeated low estimates of the huge BP oil spill undermined public confidence in the government’s entire cleanup effort, leaders of a White House-appointed commission declared at an investigatory hearing Monday. One likened the mistakes to Custer’s disastrous decisions at Little Big Horn.




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