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Topic: bp oil spill

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

BP's toxic Gulf Coast legacy

Dahr Jamail - Truthout
Deepwater Horizon rig in flames, last April.

Uta Passow - The Conversation
(Reuters)

Big oil wins again

Lindsay Abrams
In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Lindsay Abrams
(Wikimedia/U.S. Coast Guard)

Lindsay Abrams
(Arun Roisri/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Several colonies of coral with attached anemones and brittle star from a previously discovered coral community 13 km from the spill site showing damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The extensive brown growth on the normally gold-colored coral is not found on healthy colonies. (Fisher lab, Penn State University)

Lindsay Abrams
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