Gulf oil spill could eventually foul South Florida beaches
Scrambling to head off looming ecological disaster, the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday set fire to an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico — already the size of Miami-Dade County and expanding — from a blown-out drilling rig spewing some 42,000 barrels of crude a day.
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