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Meanwhile, in the Gulf, Taylor Energy was down to a single employee -
its president, William Pecue.

At a 2016 public forum in Baton Rouge, Pecue made the case for
allowing the company to walk away from its obligation to clean up the
mess. Taylor Energy had been sold to a joint venture of South Korean
companies in 2008, the same year it started the $666 million trust. A
third of the money had been spent on cleanup, and only a third of the
leaking wells had been fixed. But Pecue wanted to recover $450
million, arguing the spill could not be contained.

"I can affirmatively say that we do believe this was an act of God
under the legal definition," Pecue said. In other words, Taylor
Energy had no control over the hurricane.

But Ivan was no freak storm.

It was one of more than 600 that have been tracked in the Gulf since
records were kept in the mid-1800s, according to NOAA.

Fourteen years after the Taylor spill, and 10 years after the
Deepwater Horizon disaster, the federal government still doesn't know
the spills' full impact on marine life. And there is no economic
analysis showing the value of the oil flowing into the sea and
potential royalties lost to taxpayers. Activists also want an
analysis to determine if oil is ruining marshland and making its way
to beaches.

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