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Baseball to beaches: Coast is different 10 years after spill

by Associated Press
| April 21, 2020 12:03 AM

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — As millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the blue water of the Gulf of Mexico from a blown-out BP well in 2010, coastal residents wondered whether their home would ever be the same. A decade later, it's not: The Deepwater Horizon disaster changed the five-state region dramatically, with a flood of post-spill spending and memories of the catastrophe altering landscapes and attitudes along bayous and beaches.

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