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Blog post picked up by New York Times

   July 15, 2011

My blog post on BP trying to end oil spill payments got mentioned in the New York Times:

“Our state and local leaders have been so quick to declare that the beaches, seafood and Gulf Coast are doing fine that we may have screwed up the chances of the remaining outstanding BP oil spill claims to be paid,” Rick Outzen, publisher of the Independent News, an alternative weekly in Pensacola, Fla., wrote on his blog.”

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The Atlantic Wire also picked it up. Read here.

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