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Sentry being prepared for a mission to map the underwater oil plume near the Deepwater Horizon well head. (Courtesy of Rich Camilli, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution )

by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer This fall has seen the endgame of the US Justice Department’s civil case against British Petroleum and eight partners in the matter of the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout, likely to be settled soon, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Justice Department is suing under the Clean Water [...]

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