WH Defends Oil Spill Predictions After Report Claims It Hid Worst-Case Numbers | Talking Points Memo

The presidential oil spill commission Wednesday released a series of preliminary reports on how the BP oil disaster was handled. In one of the reports, the commission found that the White House stopped NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, from releasing its worst case scenario numbers in the days after the Deepwater Horizon exploded.


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