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The HillThe White House is pushing back against a report that it blocked public release of worst-case projections during the early days of the BP oil spill.
The White House Office of Management and Budget, in a statement Wednesday, said, “senior government officials were clear with the public what the worst-case flow rate could be.”
“In early May, (Interior) Secretary Salazar and Admiral Thad Allen told the American people that the worst case scenario could be more than 100,000 barrels a day,” notes the joint comment from OMB and Jane Lubchenco, who heads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The comment comes hours after the presidential commission probing the spill released a staff paper that said OMB might have blocked NOAA efforts to release worst-case projections of how much oil could flow from BP's ruptured well.
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