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"BP Finishes Pumping Cement Into Blown-Out Well" [1]

"NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP finished pumping fresh cement into its blown-out oil well Thursday as it aimed to seal for good the ruptured pipe that for months spewed crude into the Gulf of Mexico in one of the world's worst spills."

Greg Bluestein and Harry R. Weber report for the Associated Press August 5, 2010. [2]

Disasters [3]
National (U.S.) [4]
Public [5]
Source: AP [2], 08/06/2010
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