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Lax Oversight Cited in Failure of Oil Rig’s Failsafe Device

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/us/21blowout.html?partn...

The federal agency charged with regulating offshore drilling repeatedly declined to act on advice on how it could minimize the risk of a failure of the device, an examination found.

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