The Ads Are Right: BP Recovers from Deepwater Horizon Spill. As for the South?

This April 20th will mark two full years since the start of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. It was on that date that the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig caught fire and sank, killing 11 on board and kicking off the release of as much as 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum, the company with the most visible ties to the oil platform and subsequent disaster, saw its value plummet by nearly 55% within two months. Beaches from Florida to Texas saw tarballs, oil, and dead aquatic life wash up on their shores. The fishing industry was all but wiped out in 2010 – with as much as 36% of the Gulf closed at one time to fishing, and fears from the public driving down demand and cost for what was hauled in from the catch.

Time heals wounds though, for BP at least. How about the Gulf Coast?