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White House: Nobody Owes Apology to BP's Hayward

The White House said Wednesday it owed no apology to former BP chief executive Tony Hayward, after welcoming a report that showed pollution from the Gulf oil spill was less than many initially had feared.

White House: Nobody Owes Apology to BP's Hayward

The White House said Wednesday it owed no apology to former BP chief executive Tony Hayward, after welcoming a report that showed pollution from the Gulf oil spill was less than many initially had feared.

"Nobody owes Tony Hayward an apology," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told a news briefing, insisting the better-than-expected capture of the oil was in part due to the pressure the administration had put on BP to do more faster.

"We asked for and demanded in particular their containment strategy be accelerated," Gibbs said.

While the government said half the 4.9 million barrels of oil that leaked from the Gulf of Mexico well since April was gone, more than 1 million barrels remain, four times the amount of the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill in Alaska.

Hayward, a Briton, was castigated in the U.S. media for initially playing down the pollution coming from the blown well and complaining that he wanted his life back. He was hauled to Washington to say sorry and subsequently replaced as BP CEO by American Bob Dudley.

BP [BP 39.39 -0.61 (-1.52%)] said earlier Wednesday it had passed a "significant milestone" in plugging the well for good, and a U.S. government report found that nearly three-fourths of the spilled crude had been dispersed, captured or had evaporated.


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