A look back at the devastating BP oil spill
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A look back at the devastating BP oil spill
On April 20, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused 200 million gallons of sticky black crude oil to spew into the ocean, setting off a devastating environmental disaster. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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