President Obama said in the Rose Garden this afternoon that the Gulf Coast oil spill is “the greatest environmental disaster of its kind in our history” — and offered assurances that his administration will enact the necessary reforms to make sure nothing like it happens again.Obama said his commission will “thoroughly examine the spill and its causes so that we never face such a catastrophe again.”
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