MCCLATCHY – A month after oil spill began, Obama finally taking charge
WASHINGTON — Facing a growing furor over the monthlong Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the White House on Friday named two environmentalists to lead a presidential commission investigating the disaster.
The appointments of former Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham and William K. Reilly, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush, came as the Obama administration tried to defend its handling of the spill against critics who charge that the oil giant BP has been dragging its feet in measuring how much oil the company’s ruptured well is spewing.
A month after the spill began, the Obama administration also appeared to be distancing itself from BP, forming a task force this week to measure the spilled crude that includes an engineering professor who has told Congress that he thinks the spill is far larger than originally thought, but not a representative from BP.
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5/24/10
Magnolia Tribune
