President Obama announced Thursday he would return to the Gulf of Mexico, as a mechanical cap that may finally stem the river of BP crude bearing down on the shores of four states was slowly lowered to the seafloor.
The visit Friday would be Obama's third since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 people and unleashed what has become the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The administration, which in the last week has assumed a more demanding stance toward BP, on Thursday sent the company a preliminary cleanup bill for $69 million, a small portion of the estimated $1-billion cost of the spill response so far.
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