Blown-out BP well is declared dead

Pressure tests confirm that efforts to seal the well in the Gulf of Mexico were successful, officials say. Now questions turn to the long-term effects of the largest offshore spill in U.S. history.Rob Canty heard the news on TV on Sunday morning at his home in St. Tammany Parish, La.: The wild oil well that changed his life — and the lives of thousands of others along the Gulf Coast — was sealed up, safely and permanently, thanks to an injection of cement 18,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

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