BP accuses Feds of hiding spill size

BP accuses Feds of hiding spill size

BP PLC accuses the federal government of improperly withholding scientific documents that could show it overestimated the amount of oil that spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from the company’s Macondo well.

Late Thursday, the oil company asked U.S. Magistrate Sally Shushan in New Orleans to order the government to turn over thousands of documents that appear to relate to “flow rate issues’’ and the work of scientists who served on the government’s “Flow Rate Technical Group’’ following the 2010 spill.

AP
3/30/12