WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the leading Congressional investigator into the BP oil spill disaster, blasted the Department of the Interior's approval of BP's Kaskida project, a $5-billion offshore oil project in the Gulf of Mexico, which will have significant negative consequences for nearby communities and ecosystems.
In 2010, as then-Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Senator Markey led a bipartisan Congressional delegation to the Gulf of Mexico to assess the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its impacts. Senator Markey also chaired the first congressional hearing to investigate the spill.
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