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Local leaders prep for potential arrival of Gulf oil spill
HOUSTON—Leaders from Galveston, Harris and Brazoria Counties have asked to address the public next Tuesday to assure residents on the Texas coast that they are ready if the Deepwater Horizon oil spill shifts course and heads our way. “We’re actually having more discussions with authorities on the oil spill than we are with hurricanes,” said John Simsen from the Galveston County Office of …
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Local barbers help to clean up oil spill
Now, all that hair lost in a typical haircut can be put to better use than just an itch in the collar. Beason’s Barber Shop is collecting hair to send to the Gulf Coast to help with the oil crisis.
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Local fisheries unaffected by Gulf spill
The ongoing oil spill at the Deepwater Horizon offshore drillingrig has caused massive shortages in the Gulf fishing operations,but the Southern Illinois fishery market has yet to see drasticchanges caused by the disaster.
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Mary Ann Patti, whose family owns the largest locally owned and operated seafood company in the Panhandle, is experiencing first-hand the devastating effects of the BP oil spills. Seafood, hotel, and resort businesses have already taken a nosedive in the Gulf region as a result of the spill. Mary Ann talks to MSNBC’s Ed Schultz about the personal effect this spill is having on her life.
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Senate Democrats were joined by environmental leaders this week to discuss BP’s oil spill disaster currently ravaging the Gulf Coast. “For some time we have been told by the oil industry that it can’t happen and it won’t happen. Well, they weren’t too safe to fail not in Australia last year, not in the Gulf last week, not in Mexico in 1979,” said Sen. Menendez.
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Local Lab Named in Conflict of Interest Regarding Spill Tests
Local environmental officials throughout the Gulf Coast are feverishly collecting water, sediment and marine animal tissue samples that will be used in the coming months to help track pollution levels resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Oil spill to land on local beaches?
The oil rig leak in the Gulf of Mexico could reach Northeast Florida beaches if the oil moves into the Gulf Stream, scientists say.

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