BP prepares to shoulder some of the blame for Gulf spill

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Bloomberg reports that results of internal investigation will be released in the next few days showing BP was partially responsible for disaster

BP is expected to admit in the next few days that it was partially to blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which killed 11 people and led to the largest oil spill in US history. According...

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