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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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The April 20, 2010, explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, forty miles off the Louisiana coast, resulting in eleven deaths, seventeen injuries and a massive marine petroleum release.

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