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The Ixtoc was estimated to have leaked some 3.5 million barrels of oil after spewing into the Gulf for 10 months. Half of that, of course, is 1.75 million barrels.
Of course! Thanks, TPMMuckraker, for pointing that one out. (It’s an otherwise good piece about how a federal environment agency bungled predictions about what would happen to sea turtles in the event of a major oil spill.)
