LONDON/NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Beleaguered BP Plc boss Tony Hayward retreated from daily management of the oil spill crisis on Tuesday and dodged a conference appearance where his stand-in was heckled by angry environmentalists.
Hayward's move, after a series of PR gaffes by the CEO and a failure to quickly stem the leak, came ahead of a U.S court decision over whether to uphold a post-spill ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
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