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Oil Reaches Louisiana Shores
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Oil Reaches Louisiana Shores


Boston.com
Area: New Orleans

A Greenpeace activist steps through oil on a beach along the Gulf of Mexico on May 20, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana. On May 14, BP CEO Tony Hayward attempted to persuade The Guardian that "the Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."

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