House Holds Hearing On BP Oil Spill And Safety Of Seafood

WASHINGTON - AUGUST 19: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Response and Restoration Senior Scientist Bill Lehr (C) testifies about the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee with Assistant EPA Administrator in the Office of Research and Development Paul Anastas (3R) and Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Acting Deputy Director Donald Kraemer (2R) on Capitol Hill August 19, 2010 in Washington, DC. Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) was the only member of Congress present to question the witnesses. Lehr said that NOAA estimates that 4.1 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico and that 75 percent of that oil is still present in the environment in either evaporated or dispersed form. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - AUGUST 19: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Response and Restoration Senior Scientist Bill Lehr (C) testifies about the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee with Assistant EPA Administrator in the Office of Research and Development Paul Anastas (3R) and Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Acting Deputy Director Donald Kraemer (2R) on Capitol Hill August 19, 2010 in Washington, DC. Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) was the only member of Congress present to question the witnesses. Lehr said that NOAA estimates that 4.1 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico and that 75 percent of that oil is still present in the environment in either evaporated or dispersed form. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
House Holds Hearing On BP Oil Spill And Safety Of Seafood
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