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The world, making decisions for folks down here. randi kaye uncovered a smelly mess from one local community. they doesn't want it there. they passed a resolution, saying so but bp headquartered in london and an operator in houston dumped on them anyway. how did it happen? how could it happen? randi kaye is keeping it honest. >> reporter: if you've been wondering where all that scooped-up, onshore oil ends up, here's your answer. this is mississippi's pecan grove landfill. what cleanup workers gather onshore, tar ball, oiled sand and vegetation, is hauled away and buried here. that even includ...

Sugar coat it as well, at least by their website they've launched. it's all about the spill but may involve some spin as well. tom foreman has been looking at the site and joins us now. tom? >> restorethegulf.gov does contain some useful information. you can find out how to make claims for damages if you need to. you can click on maps that will show you where the spill oil is, where fishing is closed, where beaches have been affected. the bad news is all the information it does not contain or at least is very hard to find. how much oil has been spilled so far? how many jobs have been lost? how...

Them into this situation where bp holds all the cards and bp is letting these workers get sick. >> back in alaska, roy dalthorp's coughing had ans never stopped, he now has skin rashes. his health is literally crumbling. >> i'm going blind. >> you think you were poisoned out there? >> yes. yes. silently poisoned. and that's what's happening to those people down in the gulf. >> drew is joining us now. drew, health officials are monitoring cleanup workers here in the gulf. we've seen some of that. are you saying that there was no one monitoring in alaska and there was no follow up either? >> san...

Years later, based on -- >> on one worker that i represented. >> who is still sick? >> who is still sick to this day. even exxon was forced to concede, eventually, that gary stubblefield was a very sick man. >> mestas' client, gary stubblefield, filed a lawsuit. he traveled from alaska to an exxon office in houston where stubblefield's medical records and thousands of others were being held, records exxon asked a court to seal for privacy reasons. of 11,000 cleanup workers, 6,722 had gotten sick. it was explained away as a simple virus, the so-called exxon crud, a flu or cold that exxon was no...

>> for six weeks, he worked on a ship that super heated sea water to pressure wash exxon's crude oil off rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily smelling mist, permeating the ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. >> nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. i'm serious. there was no follow up. >> exxon told us it doesn't know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the w...