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How DOGE cuts may impact response to oil spill off Louisiana

Name: How DOGE cuts may impact response to oil spill off Louisiana
Uploaded: 2025-05-02T19:02:00-0400
Duration: 2 min 41 s
Description: Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the response to a major oil spill off Louisiana's Gulf Coast this week, a leak that is fast contaminating marshlands and threatening vital wildlife habitats and fisheries. Kati Weis reports.

Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the response to a major oil spill off Louisiana's Gulf Coast this week, a leak that is fast contaminating marshlands and threatening vital wildlife habitats and fisheries. Kati Weis reports.