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Oil now hitting Mississippi shores

While oil has been covering the beaches of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida for weeks, Mississippi had escaped contamination. Until now.

For the first time, thick pools of oil washed ashore in Mississippi on Sunday. A tourist beach at Ocean Springs, 10 miles east of Biloxi, and another beach close to a marsh were hit.

State officials wanted to clean up the oil immediately but were frustrated to stand idle as BP contractors were yet to arrive at the sites. A spokesman for the state’s Dept. of Environmental Quality told Reuters that “we cannot clean up or catch the oil until BP gets here…they have all the money.”

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