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The Oil Spill Has Stopped, but Berm Controversy Rages On

The cap on the Deepwater Horizon rig has held for 10 days now. This might mean that the BP oil spill has gushed its last, thus putting finite, if as yet immeasurable, limits on the huge cleanup that remains. But Saturday's emergence of a short-lived tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico was a harsh reminder that, even if the spewing has stopped for good, the vast uncontained slick could still blow ashore and cause further fouling, especially in Louisiana. But In the view of the Baton Rouge-based coastal scientist Leonard Bahr, the environmental threat posed by such leaked oil is menacingly ...

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