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Months After Spill, Another Look Into the Gulf

With the one-year anniversary of the BP oil-rig explosion approaching, Ian Crawford of KUT News spoke with Carter Smith, executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, about the state of the Gulf and why researchers may be studying its effects for decades.

By Ian Crawford
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Response boats work to clean up oil where the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig sank on April 22, 2010.
Credit: United States Coast Guard

With the one-year anniversary of the BP oil-rig explosion approaching, Ian Crawford of KUT News spoke with Carter Smith, executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, about the state of the Gulf and why researchers may be studying its effects for decades.

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