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Wednesday, August 04, 2010  White House energy adviser Carol Browner said on morning TV talk shows that a new assessment found that about 75 percent of the oil has either been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down in the Gulf.

Friday, July 02, 2010  Complaints are growing that foreign offers of equipment, as well as local fishing boats and volunteers, are being ignored to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.