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Source: Raw Story/Agence France-Presse

BP America chief: ‘Sorry’ for Gulf disaster

By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 -- 2:12 pm


BP America chief executive Lamar McKay told angry lawmakers Tuesday that the embattled energy giant was "sorry" for the impact of a disastrous oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.

US lawmakers grilled oil company bosses Tuesday just hours before President Barack Obama was to outline new steps to battle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a solemn Oval Office address.

Oil executives rounded on rival BP insisting America's worst ever environmental disaster could have been prevented if the British energy giant had followed industry-wide safety practices.

Bosses from global oil titans ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Shell took pains to distance themselves at the packed Congress hearing from the unfolding Gulf catastrophe.

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