Controlling the damage from the current spill is partly beyond human control.

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Thanks to MSRC and other contractors, the impact of the current spill on the Gulf is considerably less than it might otherwise have been.

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But do these bubbles spill over into current commodity prices?

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Scientists later used the spill to research ocean current patterns.

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At its current flow, the spill would take more than 260 days to rival the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, when about 11 million gallons spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

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The current administration said, regarding the Gulf of Mexico spill, that non- inforcement of drilling rules was a problem for decades.

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As an alternative to dam removal, the BPA is required by the current federal biological opinion on salmon recovery, to provide minimum flow and spill levels to help salmon survive the dams.

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And would that have helped in the current situation, had BP actually had that relief well up on line even before the spill took place?

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