Mississippi Coast Gets First Taste of Oil Spill 4.03K Jeff Neumann 06/27/10 03:46PM Filed to: Spreading Spreading oil spill Bp Mississippi Disasters "Large patches" of crude from the BP oil spill today reached the Mississippi coast for the first time, hitting beaches 10 miles from Biloxi. State Department of Environmental Quality: "We can't do anything because [BP has] all the money." [Reuters]