On August 4, Carol Browner, special adviser to the president for energy and climate change, appeared on NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s The Early Show to announce that 75 percent of the oil in the Gulf from the BP spill was gone.
“The vast majority of the oil has been contained, it’s been burned, it’s been cleaned and that’s good news for the people of the Gulf,” she said on CBS.
Browner was backed up by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco, whose office issued a five-page report which said that only 52.7 million gallons out of the approximately 172 million gallons that spewed into the water from the broken BP well remained.
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