<p>Twelve years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the economy and ecology of the Gulf of Mexico are still feeling its wrath. Oil spill experts Tyler Priest and Christopher Reddy examine how this monumental disaster came about and recap the effect of the spill on life in Southeastern Louisiana. </p>

Twelve years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the economy and ecology of the Gulf of Mexico are still feeling its wrath. Oil spill experts Tyler Priest and Christopher Reddy examine how this monumental disaster came about and recap the effect of the spill on life in Southeastern Louisiana.

<p>Twelve years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the economy and ecology of the Gulf of Mexico are still feeling its wrath. Oil spill experts Tyler Priest and Christopher Reddy examine how this monumental disaster came about and recap the effect of the spill on life in Southeastern Louisiana.&nbsp;</p>

LA in Deepwater: Gulf Seeped in Oil

Engulfed is a podcast from Loyola University New Orleans’ student-run newspaper The Maroon about investigating instances of environmental injustice in Southeast Louisiana communities. Louisiana is home to millions of acres of bayous, marshes rich with fauna spanning from the white-tailed deer to the American alligator, and long, brackish rivers, the Atchafalaya and Mississippi that empty into the Gulf of Mexico. For some, the state is a sportsman's paradise, a haven of sorts for catching crawfish or hunting duck. But for those drowning in man-made disasters like climate change, oil spills and unbreathable air, all they see are their ways of life slowly dying.

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