<span>The Deepwater
Horizon oil spill affected an area of approximately 2,500 to 68,000
square miles, affecting the Gulf Coast of Mexico, especially the states
of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. In
2013, in the state of Louisiana, they managed to eliminate 4,900,000
pounds of oil from beaches, twice the amount of oil collected in 2012.
The economies of the Gulf Coast states were terribly affected, as the
spill affected the industries, of which, the inhabitants of the coast of the four affected states depended. <span>More than a third of US waters in the Gulf were closed to fishing, to avoid further pollution.</span></span>
