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Shell Beach, One Year After the Oil Blowout

Jessie Wright-Mendoza

By Eve Abrams

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-964265.mp3

New Orleans, Louisiana – It's been a year since BP's Macondo Well blew up off the coast of Louisiana, spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and altering the lives, economies, and cultures of communities all along the Gulf Coast. Over the course of the year, Eve Abrams has been visiting the folks in Shell Beach, Louisiana. She recently checked in to see how things are going in this fishing community leveled by Katrina, but perhaps hurt harder one year ago.

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