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Suit: Feds ignore risk of huge spills to endangered species

by Janet McCONNAUGHEY
| October 22, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental groups asked a federal court Wednesday to throw out the Trump administration's assessment of oil and gas activity’s likely effects on endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, saying it dismisses the chance of another disastrous blowout like the BP spill of 2010.

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