Photo via Physorg And it’s about time. Over the weekend, the federal government finally deemed the Macondo 252 well, which had erupted after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig , to be “effectively dead”. Thad Allen, the ex-Coast Guard Rear Admiral who had overseen the spill response during the disaster, made the official statement yesterday. He said that the well now poses “no continuing threat to the Gulf of Mexico,” according to the New York Times. Can that be true?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Gulf Spill Well is Officially "Dead", Obama Admin Says
