Gov. Jeff Landry has promised changes starting Monday to the cleanup of the Smitty's Supply Inc. fire after he saw aerial video of oiled sections of the Tangipahoa River.

The video from Saturday posted on social media shows an oiled pond next to Smitty's and an oiled section of the river, which received potentially millions of gallons of runoff from the Smitty's lubricants plant near Roseland.

It caught fire and exploded Aug. 22 and was not fully extinguished until Sept. 8.

After seeing the video, Landry said Sunday that he talked with the regional heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the leaders of his state environmental and oil-and-gas agencies.

"Collectively, we had a call and tomorrow morning things are getting ready to start changing on the cleaning up of tha

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