article_snippet.sent: (CNN)On April 20, 2010, a final cement seal of an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico failed, causing what has been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history and taking the lives of 11 rig workers.
article_snippet.sent: The federal government estimated 4.2 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, but BP argued in court that it was much lower.
article_snippet.sent: A judge ruled BP was responsible for the release of 3.1 million barrels.
article_snippet.sent: BP, the company that caused the spill, is eager to point out BP appears the Gulf of Mexico Mexico is healing the Gulf of Mexico.
article_snippet.sent: While BP's assessment has not been disproven, the government suggests it's too soon to make long-term conclusions about the rebounding health of the Gulf of Mexico.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after BP released BP own five-year report that concluded the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico has largely recovered, the trustees of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment called BP's report "inappropriate as well as premature.
article_snippet.sent: One government official familiar with the trustee's assessment accused BP of having "cherry-picked" positive results while ignoring others, something BP denies.
article_snippet.sent: BP doesn't accept the results of Joye's work.
article_snippet.sent: BP said BP is all accounted for and only exists in two places: within a 2 kilometer area around the wellhead and in tar mats and tar balls that have yet to be cleaned up on the beach.
highlights_snippet.sent: April 20 marks 5 years since the BP oil spill .
  