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Will the Spill Impact Public Health?

The Daily Beast speaks to Louisiana Secretary of Health Alan Levine about whether the spill will impact air quality and drinking water. Plus: How New Orleans’ infamous levies destroy wetlands, and why fishermen actually love the oil industry.

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Samples are collected at the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana, where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread. (Carlos Barria / Reuters)

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