BP eyes spill burn as Congress takes notice

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Houston—BP was scheduled to conduct the first of what some expect to be several controlled burns April 28 in the company’s continuing battle to contain the oil spill created by last week’s Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, government leaders in Congress and the administration continued to become more involved in the investigation into the April 20 event that began with a blowout at BP’s Macondo exploration well in 4,993 feet of water about 40 miles from Venice, Louisiana.