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Some Oil Companies are Now Trying to Mitigate Coastal Erosion They Caused

"ConocoPhillips is Tierra Resources' main investor in a project to seed tens of thousands of acres of fragile marshland with a plant called the black mangrove. Oil companies have caused a great deal of erosion along Louisiana's coast. For decades, they've dug a system of canals through the delicate marsh to access their wells." - excerpts from WBUR news report.

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