BP emails reveal company veiling spill rate
Quick ReadBP emails reveal company veiling spill rate estimates from well even as rig sank
(AP) -- On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million gallons higher than what the government later believed spilled daily from the site.
The email conversation, which BP agreed...
