National Public Radio: Louisiana officials are pleading for federal approval to build colossal sandbars outside barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico to protect the state's vast wetlands from the oil spurting from the Deepwater Horizon rig. Heavy oil started showing up in state wetlands earlier this week, heightening the officials' urgency. "This is an extremely important component of our own plan to protect our coast from this oil, and this will also help to protect Louisiana from future hurricane ......
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La. Pushes Sandbars To Fight Oil; Scientists Skeptical
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 20th, 2010
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