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May 19, 2010

Oil from BP Disaster Reaching Louisiana Marshes
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Oil from the BP rig explosion has begun reaching ecologically fragile
coastal marshes on the Louisiana coast. On Tuesday, thick tides of brown
oil began washing ashore in south Louisiana, raising fears of a
catastrophe for the local seafood industry and a more porous defense
against future hurricane storms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration has nearly doubled the size of a fishing ban to cover 19
percent of the entire Gulf of Mexico.



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