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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Threatens Coasts of Four US States

   VOA News 01 May 2010
   Dr. Erica Miller (L) and Danene Birtell with Tri-State Bird Rescue and
   Research  work  to  help  a  Northern  Gannet bird covered in oil at a
   facility in Fort Jackson, La., 30 Apr 2010

Photo: AP

   Dr. Erica Miller (L) and Danene Birtell with Tri-State Bird Rescue and
   Research  work  to  help  a  Northern  Gannet bird covered in oil at a
   facility in Fort Jackson, La., 30 Apr 2010

   Residents along the southern U.S. coast fear an environmental disaster
   is near as oil from a destroyed well approaches.
   About 800,000 liters of crude oil per day are gushing into the Gulf of
   Mexico,  after  an unexplained explosion April 20 sank an offshore oil
   rig.
   The  oil  has  begun  washing  up  on  land  in  some coastal parts of