Agence France-Presse: Crude oozed Thursday into US wetlands, prompting furious Louisiana officials to accuse BP of destroying fragile marshes beyond repair and leaving coastal fishing communities in ruin. With some of the worst fears of environmental disaster being realized in the marshlands of the Mississippi Delta, BP was also forced to concede it had underestimated the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. The British energy giant had always maintained only 5,000 barrels -- or 210,000 ......
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Louisiana marshes hit by Gulf oil slick
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 20th, 2010
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