Now the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has alleged that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOOA) researcher Bill Lehr "lowballed" the estimates of the size of the spill. Given that the original oil budget estimated that 26% of the oil was "missing," it seems that PEER feels that there are even more barrels of oil among the "disappeared." And the public thought that "hiding the decline" was newsworthy!