Scenes of the BP Spill Zone, One Year Later

Scenes of the BP Spill Zone, One Year Later At the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, much of the Gulf coast is still in a fragile state
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A worker takes soil samples from an island in Barataria Bay to determine if the island needs to be cleaned again near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana March 31, 2011.

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