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Aug 6, 2010
An orange balloon floated 50 feet above California State University, Fresno's small dairy herd last week, helping in the unsavory task of gathering air samples from a plume of pungent gases.
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Aug 6, 2010
No more oil is likely to leak into the Gulf of Mexico now that efforts to plug the blown-out well are succeeding, the government's point man on the spill declared Wednesday. A relieved President Barack Obama said the fight to stop the leak is 'finally close to coming to an end.'
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Aug 6, 2010
The federal government — which has had to repeatedly revise its estimate about how much oil has gushed into the gulf from the Deepwater Horizon disaster — announced Wednesday that 'the vast majority' of the oil appears to be gone.
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Aug 6, 2010
BP's 'static kill' operation appears to have succeeded in plugging its leaking well. However, some scientists are sceptical of a US government report concluding that most of the spilt oil is gone and poses little threat to the Gulf of Mexico.
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