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"New Justice Department Environment Chief Takes Helm Of Gulf Spill Case" [1]

"John Cruden served with U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam, taking his law school aptitude test in Saigon and eventually becoming a government lawyer. Earlier this month, he started a new job running the environment and natural resources division at the Justice Department. For Cruden, 68, the new role means coming home to a place where he worked as a career lawyer for about 20 years.

Cruden has been around long enough to have supervised the Exxon Valdeez spill case, a record-setter. That is, until the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010."

Carrie Johnson reports for NPR's Morning Edition January 19, 2015. [2]

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Source: NPR [6], 01/19/2015
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