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The New York Times
Thu, May 27, 2010 -- 11:11 AM ET
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'Top Kill' Effort Seems to Be Working, U.S. Says Cautiously
The latest effort to plug a gushing underwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be working, officials and engineers said on Thursday morning, though definitive word on its success was still hours away.
At the same time, government experts said that the flow of oil from the well, which has been gushing since an explosion and fire wrecked a drilling rig in late April, was several times worse than the preliminary estimate by BP, the oil company responsible for the rig and the well.
And The Associated Press reported on Thursday that the head of the agency responsible for regulating offshore oil drilling had been dismissed.
