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Oil from BP Disaster Reaching Louisiana Marshes

HeadlineMay 19, 2010

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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