Spill surpasses record for oil in the Gulf

Subject: Spill surpasses record for oil in the Gulf Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:35 am

By JENNIFER LATSON and JENNIFER A. DLOUHY

Based on the upper end of a range of government estimates, the spill passed the 140-million-gallon mark, surpassing the 1979-1980 Ixtoc I spill off Mexico.

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