Navigation Speak
Nov 12
1998
1998
The Gulf’s original crisis: Collapsing marsh dwarfs the BP oil blowout as an ecological disaster
Claude Luke throttles down his 21-foot aluminum workboat. Off to the left, the snout of an alligator disappears near the mouth of a watery gash in the Louisiana marshland. The 51-year-old Cajun crab fishermen is touring the epicenter of an unfolding environmental disaster that dwarfs the BP Plc spill and predates it by decades, according to state scientists and environmentalists. If unchecked …
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