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Industry-sponsored "Clean Gulf" conference draws fire listen

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Tags: Gulf oil disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Corexit, Noralco, BP, FDEP

Six months ago today, an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The deep water well may have been dead for three months, but the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed left a stain on the Gulf Coast’s environment as well as its economy. Entities involved in the cleanup touted their response efforts, but not without getting an earful from critics.

The annual Clean Gulf conference is in its twentieth year, but this is the first one since the Deepwater Hor...