Quotes: Official on BP Trash Contamination Fears

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“BP oil is responsible for polluting our sand beaches and our estuaries. They pick it up, put it on trucks, take it four or five miles north and dump it on us again.”

— MARLIN LADNER, supervisor in Harrison County, Miss., on concerns that materials from the oil-spill cleanup will contaminate local landfills. (via New York Times)