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Is oil leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf?

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Tags: BP, Oil slick, Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon, Press-Register, wmnf, Mark Ferrulo, Progress Florida

The Mobile Press Register newspaper reported last week that:

"Scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match for the hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that spewed into the Gulf last summer.

"The Press-Register collected samples of the oil about a mile from the well site on Tuesday and provided them to Ed Overton and Scott Miles, chemists with Louisiana State University.

"The pair did much o...