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From a personal perspective, two costs that BP might incur from the oil spill in the Gulf Coast region would be as follows: First, additional funding for research to universities for marine & wildlife in the region and the impact on the environment. The incident has had a major impact on the Gulf region and beyond. “According to the website dosomething.com “16,000 total miles of coastline have been affected, including the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida”. Since one of the major industries in the region is seafood, which is sold to consumers as well as businesses throughout the US and the world. The toxins from the oil spill polluted the waterways which have a damaging effect on the sale of seafood from the region as well as people in the region who were exposed to the toxins in the water. Although funding has been established on the federal level additional funding should come from BP to continue for at least the next one hundred years. …show more content…

In an article from the website thinkprogress.com by Annie-Rose Strausser, she stated “The people who worked to clean up the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are at an increased risk of getting cancer, leukemia, and a host of other illnesses, according to a new study released Tuesday in the American Journal of Medicine”. But the residence of the region are also affected by this environmental nightmare which has caused more untimely medical conditions as well as an increase in the morality rate in the

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