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BP oil spill cleanup and containment BP, the government and an army of volunteers are fighting to contain and clean the millions of gallons of oil spewing from the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
Aug. 19, 2010
Bill Lehr, senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Response and Restoration, testifies to the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee about the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion.
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Aug. 18, 2010
Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, listens to a question during a public meeting in Houma, La. Claims from all 50 U.S. states confront Feinberg as he prepares to tap BP's $20 billion escrow account for victims of the company's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Aug. 18, 2010
Troy Dupre, 42, an oil rig worker who says he's unemployed because of the U.S. government's deep-water drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, asks a question during a public meeting with Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility.
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Aug. 17, 2010
Gary Lopinto, a commercial seafood inspector for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, sniffs a fillet of drum fish for oil contamination at Inland Seafood in New Orleans.
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Aug. 3, 2010
The Blue Dolphin, left, and the HOS Centerline, the ships supplying the mud for the "static kill" operation, pump mud through hoses at the site of the blown well. In the background is the Development Driller III, which is drilling the primary relief well.
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Aug. 3, 2010
A robotic arm works near the containment stack, in this image captured from the BP spillcam. BP said Wednesday that the well had reached a "stable condition," meaning that the pumped-in mud has brought the well's pressure under control.
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Aug. 3, 2010
Crab fisherman Clarence Grose, 40, throws a baited trap into the water near Hopedale, La. Commercial and recreational fishing, with some restrictions, has started up again in southeast Louisiana in areas that were closed by the oil spill.
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Aug. 3, 2010
Eddie Forsythe and Don Rorabough dump a box of blue crabs onto a sorting table at B.K Seafood in Ycloskey, La. The New York Times reported that a government report to be released Wednesday will announce that about 75 percent of the spilled oil has already been eliminated from the gulf.
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Aug. 3, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announces that the Democratic leadership will not bring energy reform legislation to the floor for a vote before the summer recess. Reid said that he could not come up with a single Republican vote and therefore could not get the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Act passed.
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Aug. 2, 2010
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, center, speaks at a press conference to address the reopening of commercial fishing areas along the Louisiana coast behind a chest of shrimp caught this morning in Dixon Bay in Venice, La. Standing behind Jindal are St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro, left, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.
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Aug. 2, 2010
Actress Pamela Anderson takes several dogs for a walk in New Orleans. Anderson was on hand to walk and help send off about 50 dogs that are being moved from Louisiana to Virginia after being orphaned by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Anderson, PETA's honorary director, paid all the expenses and costs to relocate the dogs. Anderson chose two dogs to adopt and take home herself.
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Aug. 1, 2010
Doug Suttles, BP's COO of Exploration and Production Doug Suttles (in blue), inspects a beach that workers have cleaned near the South Pass of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, La.
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Aug. 1, 2010
Cleanup workers suck oil out of shop vacs onto a barge after filling all their drums with oil vacuumed from Barataria Bay. The next shot at killing BP's well for good could begin as early as Monday night.
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Aug 1, 2010
BP worker Randy Murry holds up a water sample while working on the Swamp Queen III skimmer near Venice, La. Although the environmental crisis has hardly passed, there is a sense these days among BP engineers and government scientists that they've got the well in a headlock.
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July 30, 2010
Gene Bernardi holds a sign during a protest in Berkeley, Calif., to mark the 100th day of BP's oil spill. The spill is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley's research partnership with the oil giant. The British company gave UC Berkeley a $500 million grant in 2007 to create the Energy Biosciences Institute, which works to develop new sources of plant-based fuel. It's believed to be the largest-ever corporate sponsorship of university research.
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July 30, 2010
Demonstrator Mary Ann Thomas wears chocolate syrup on her face next to a similarly-stained stuffed duck during a protest in Berkeley, Calif.
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July 29, 2010
Jason Pitre (center) leads a dance on the beach to commemorate 100 days of the BP oil spill in Grand Isle, La. Eleven lives were lost and three to five million barrels of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.
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July 29, 2010
Captain Vatroslav Garbin stands near his commercial oyster boat while on standby with BP's "vessels of opportunity" cleanup program in Empire, La. Garbin signed a contract to participate in the spill response, but he has yet to be called to assist. As less heavy oil is found on the surface and commercial fishing waters remain closed, local fishermen who signed up for the program are becoming worried about their futures as they wait dockside for a call.
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July 29, 2010
(From left to right) Elena Soto, of Idaho Falls, protests with Analise Casper and Kory Harker outside the James. A. McClure Federal Building in Boise, Idaho. A group of fewer than ten protesters gathered Thursday to voice their opinions as a federal judicial panel gathered to consolidate more than 300 spill-related lawsuits against BP and other companies.
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July 28, 2010
Tug boats haul barges through a shipping channel enclosed by a pair of rock jetties meant to protect marshland that has subsided in Plaquemines Parish, La. Environmentalists are calling on the White House to speed up the restoration of the oil-damaged Mississippi River delta by getting BP to pay $5 billion now for environmental damage.
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July 28, 2010
Cypress trees killed by saltwater intrusion are seen in wetlands near Houma, La.
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July 27, 2010
A for sale sign stands in front of a home in Grand Isle, La. The worst oil spill in U.S. history may drive down property values along a 600-mile stretch of the Gulf Coast by an estimated 10 percent, according to the real estate information company CoStar Group Inc.
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July 27, 2010
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton helps a group called Feed the Children distribute food to families affected by the BP oil spill in Venice, La.
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July 27, 2010
Environmentalists dip a British flag in an oil-like liquid during a protest near a BP gas station in Milan. In addition the gulf spill, the group was also protesting against the permission that was given to BP to drill oil in the Mediterranean sea, just off Libya.
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July 27, 2010
An activist shows an anti-BP banner during a protest in Milan. BP said Tuesday that it plans to cut its U.S. tax bill by $9.9 billion by deducting costs related to the oil spill.
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July 27, 2010
A Greenpeace activist puts up a banner as a group blocks off a BP fuel station in protest as the company's board announces its annual results in London. BP is jettisoning CEO Tony Hayward, whose verbal blunders made the oil giant's image even worse as it struggled to contain the Gulf oil spill.
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July 26, 2010
Bob Dudley, who will become BP's first American chief executive following Tony Hayward's resignation from the post, arrives at the company headquarters in St James's Square in London.
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Jul 26, 2010
BP CEO Tony Hayward sits in the back of a car as he leaves the company's head office in London. On Tuesday, BP announced a $17 billion loss for the second quarter after taking a $32.2 billion charge to cover the cost of the oil spill.
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July 26, 2010
A volunteer holds a Kemp's ridley turtle hatchling before releasing it into the Gulf of Mexico at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas. Hundreds of endangered baby sea turtles embarked on a new life Monday with federal biologists hoping that by the time the tiny critters get as far east as the BP spill, the toxic oil will largely be gone.
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July 24, 2010
The sun sets over a bayou near Larose, La. BP pulled cleanup workers out ahead of tropical storm Bonnie, but ships were returning to the area Sunday to resume operations.
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July 24, 2010
Bubbles rise from the new containment stack in this image taken from the BP spillcam. BP moved ships and workers back to the spill site as the storm eased, and it could begin pumping mud into the blown-out well to try to plug the leak within three days. A temporary plug has already held in the oil for nine days.
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July 24
Music fans arrive at Island Aid 2010 on the beach at Grand Isle, La., as Tropical Depression Bonnie approaches the coast. Oil cleanup staging areas have been evacuated, but music lovers still flock to the beach.
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July 24
Paintings by artists Bobby Pitre and Eric Guidry outside Southern Sting Tattoos in Larose, La.
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July 23
Michelle Obama listens while and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, speaks to Coast Guard members at the Emergency Operations Center for Jackson County in Pascagoula, Miss.
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July 22, 2010
Demonstrators hold signs in front of the Los Angeles Federal Building before they start their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters in Westwood. SEIU union members staged the protest, asking state leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget.
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July 22, 2010
Members of AnimaNaturalis, an international animal rights nonprofit, cover their bodies in black paint at an oil spill protest in Mexico City.
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July 22, 2010
Walt Dorn, left, Director of Emergency Services for Patriot Environmental Services, briefs Vice President Joe Biden at a staging facility in Theodore, Ala.
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July 22, 2010
The Ocean Intervention III sits in port at Port Fourchon, La., for maintenance and resupply. The remote-operated underwater vessel has assisted in operations at the Deepwater Horizon leak site for over 90 days.
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July 22, 2010
Residents look on during a town hall meeting for those impacted by the oil spill in Braithwaite, La. Workers and ships will begin evacuating the Deepwater Horizon site Friday, stopping work on the final "kill" as Tropical Storm Bonnie approaches the region.
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July 21, 2010
Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the compensation fund for oil spill victims, testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill. Feinberg told lawmakers he's been besieged by real estate agents and brokers, demanding eligibility for payments.
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July 21, 2010
Ann Jones, left, and Eva Alexander, both of Lafayette, support the drilling moratorium during a protest outside the Rally for Economic Survival at the Cajundome in Lafayette, La. Inside the rally, Louisianians gathered to highlight the importance of the oil industry to the local economy.
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July 21, 2010
Employees of Petroleum Helicopters, Inc., an aviation company that flies oil workers to rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, sign a petition on lifting the drilling moratorium before the Rally for Economic Survival at the Cajundome in Lafayette, La.
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July 21, 2010
People look on during a moment of silence for the eleven Deepwater Horizon oil rig workers killed during the Rally for Economic Survival at the Cajundome in Lafayette, La. Thousands attended the rally, organized by the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, opposing the federal moratorium on deep water drilling.
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July 21, 2010
President Obama receives an oil spill briefing in the White House Situation Room.
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July 21, 2010
A remote-operated vehicle works near the new capping stack in this image captured from a BP spillcam. Ships were preparing to evacuate the oil spill site Thursday as a tropical storm approaches the gulf.
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July 21, 2010
Oil-soaked Greenpeace activists create a mock oil spill during a demonstration outside the German Economic Ministry in Berlin. BP said it was gaining confidence in the cap over its ruptured oil well, as plans took shape to seal the blown-out well for good.
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Jul 20
Protesters hold up signs in front of Capitol Hill in on July 20th which marks the three month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and ensuing oil spill. The group called on lawmakers to give oil money to relief efforts.
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July 20
British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama hold a joint news conference at the White House. In his first official visit, Cameron faced multiple questions about BP's role in the Scottish government's decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.
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July 20
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal talks with Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau of the Louisiana National Guard during a flyover of the oil spill site off the Louisiana coast.
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July 19
Pat Reynolds of Shreveport, Miss., takes photos of cartoonish signs displaying anti-BP sentiments in Grand Isle, La.
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July 19
Guests make a statement about the oil spill on the red carpet at the 2010 VH1 Do Something! Awards in Hollywood, Calif. The ceremony honored people younger than 25 who have shown "commitment to social change."
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July 19
Coast Guard Capt. Hung Nguyen speaks during the Deepwater Horizon joint investigation hearings in Kenner, La. Panel members pressed the rig's chief engineer to expand on an earlier statement describing the chaotic final moments on the burning rig.
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July 19
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., watches as Helen Engelhardt of New York speaks during a news conference at Syracuse University. Schumer urged an investigation into allegations that BP might have played a hidden role in the release of the man who blew up the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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July 18
Director of Animal Care Tim Hoffland of Gulfport, Miss., washes out the tank holding a 146-pound loggerhead turtle being cared for at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport. The turtle was recovered from the Gulf of Mexico near the Chandeleur Islands where dredging is taking place to protect the area from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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July 18
This image taken from the BP spillcam shows the containment stack at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The blown well remained shut on Sunday for the fourth day, but incident commander Thad Allen released a letter to BP Sunday night expressing concerns about seepage and "undetermined anomalies at the well head."
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July 18
Vessels assisting in the capping of the oil well are seen from a U.S. Coast Guard airplane near the coast of Louisiana. Even though the well has been shut off for now, an estimated 2.3 million barrels of oil have already leaked into the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 18
Oil sheen is seen near the source of the spill off the coast of Louisiana. Scientists are concerned about leakage spotted near the capped well, but BP officials said that they are prepared for the worst-case scenario; that the now bottled-up oil would find another way out of the gulf floor.
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July 18
Dan Hanson and his wife Debbie of Fairhope, Ala., pray as they join others in a sunrise service at a beach pavilion in Gulf Shores, Ala. About 100 people gathered to pray for people, wildlife and an end to the crisis caused by the oil spill.
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July 17
Response supervisor Adam Chrismer performs a smoke test on crew members to ensure that their new face masks fit properly on the Pacific Responder skimming vessel off the coast of Louisiana. The masks will be used in case the crew encounters dangerous chemical levels in the air while assisting in the cleanup efforts.
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July 17
People sport fish off a pier at dusk in Grand Isle, La. Louisiana has reopened most of its gulf waters to recreational fishing.
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July 15
A section of the new containment cap stack is pictured during 'well integrity testing' in this image captured from a BP live video. BP PLC conducted pressure tests on its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well on Thursday and said no oil was leaking into the ocean for the first time since the accident began in April.
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July 15
Workers use absorbent boom to clean oil from a marsh near Cocodrie, La. On the 87th day of the crisis, BP finally stopped the flow of oil as it conducts an integrity test to determine whether it is safe to shut off the well for good.
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July 15
Roy Campo, left, and a crew of fishermen sort a load of blue crabs in Hopedale, La., after hearing about the leaking well being capped. For the next 48 hours, BP will watch to see whether the capped-off well will hold or blow a new leak.
Dave Martin
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July 15
Concerned residents listen to Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, speak at a town hall meeting in Lafitte, La., about the $20 billion fund set up to pay damage claims from the BP oil spill.
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July 15
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, arrives on Capitol Hill to testify before a Senate hearing about the use of chemical dispersants in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The company has used at least 1.8 million gallons of dispersants, leading environmentalists to file a lawsuit to force the EPA to disclose safety studies about the chemicals.
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AP
July 14
Greenpeace activists protest against deep-sea drilling in front of the EU ministry in Brussels, where energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger met with oil industry representatives to discuss consequences from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 14
Attorney General Eric Holder holds a news conference addressing the legal issues regarding the BP oil spill in Dauphin Island, Ala. Holder indicated that all the corporations involved in the spill, not just BP, could eventually be held liable.
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Reuters
July 14
Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin holds a public forum to discuss mental health issues related to the oil spill in Bayou La Batre, Ala. Benjamin urged residents to secure counseling for those with mental health issues related to the oil spill, saying, "What we don't want is for them to feel alone."
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July 14
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks to reporters about the hazards involved in the efforts to cap the leaking well. "If the structural integrity of the well bore isn't strong, what you'll get is oil . . . coming out into the strata," he said, which could mean leaks "from multiple points on the seafloor."
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July 13
A vessel monitors an oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico. BP officials have placed a containment cap over the leak in hopes that the flow of oil will be diminished, but a crucial integrity test had to be delayed until Wednesday.
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July 13
A crew member aboard a U.S. Coast Guard plane takes a photo above the site of the oil spill.
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July 13
Former skier Stacey Cook, left, and former tennis player Chanda Rubin ride through Wilkinson Canal near Myrtle Grove on a tour of oil-stained areas of Louisiana. The Sierra Club sponsored the tour of 10 current and former athletes.
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July 13
From left, NASCAR racer Leilani Munter, Ovie Mughelli of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and former NFL player Mike Alstott talk in Myrtle Grove, La.
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July 13
A state marine biologist displays shrimp, fish and other marine life caught during a test trawl near Dauphin Island, Ala. Officials say they are finding normal numbers of healthy shrimp and other marine life in Alabama coastal waters despite the oil.
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July 13
"My grandfather trawled, my father trawled, and now I trawl. ... Everything's coming belly up in the water, the fish are dying. ... I hate to see it go down like this," said shrimper Laveau Trudeau Jr. of Wood Park, La. Trudeau has not been able to shrimp this year because of the oil spill.
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July 13
A citizen of Plaquemines Parish, La., makes his opinion clear with a road sign along a highway south of Belle Chasse.
Chuck Cook
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July 13
Demonstrators blow vuvuzelas outside BP's headquarters in London. The demonstrators were protesting on Tuesday as BP prepared for a new attempt to cap its runaway well.
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Reuters
July 12
Michelle Obama speaks to locals at the Boardwalk Beach Resort in Panama City Beach, Fla. The first lady visited the Florida Panhandle to offer encouragement and draw attention to a tourism industry struggling with the ripple effects of the oil spill in the gulf.
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AP
July 12
This image taken from the BP spillcam shows a new containment cap being lowered over the broken wellhead. Deep-sea robots swarmed around the ruptured oil well Monday in a delicately choreographed effort to attach the tighter-fitting cap that could finally stop crude from gushing into the gulf nearly three months into the crisis.
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July 12
A crew member looks out at the California Responder oil-skimming vessel from the deck of the Pacific Responder off the coast of Louisiana. The vessels sailed to the gulf from their home ports in California to assist in the containment efforts.
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July 12
Supervisor Wade Falany handles a rope while preparing for oil skimming operations on the deck of the Pacific Responder off the coast of Louisiana. The next few days will be critical to the containment efforts as BP performs a complicated series of maneuvers and pressure tests to attempt a permanent shutdown of the well.
Patrick Semansky
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July 12
From left, William K. Reilly, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Donald Boesch listen as Kent Wells, an executive from BP North America, addresses the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill and Offshore Drilling during a meeting in New Orleans. The commission, established through a May 21 executive order from President Obama, held its first public hearings July 12.
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July 7, 2010
Frances Sexton of Indianapolis, Ind., lies on the beach as oil cleanup workers clean the beach in the background in Pensacola Beach, Fla. Oil washed ashore overnight leaving an ugly stain and bringing out hundreds of BP workers to clean.
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July 7, 2010
Workers clean up oil balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the surf brings more onto a beach in Waveland, Miss.
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July 9, 2010
Researchers and biologists harvest sea turtle eggs from the sand in Port St. Joe, Fla. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and other authorities are relocating thousands of sea turtle eggs to a warehouse on the East coast of Florida in an effort to save them from an oily death.
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July 8, 2010
Oil washes ashore on a beach in Waveland, Miss.,
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A Vinca flower floats in brown, oily sludge in a canal behind a home near Slidell, La.
Chuck Cook
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AP
July 7, 2010
A protective boom is seen as oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill recedes back into the Gulf of Mexico after washing into a drainage canal in Waveland, Miss.
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Reuters
July 7, 2010
Greenpeace activists paint over a banner with the BP logo in a protest against the Deepwater Horizon spill at St. Stephen's square in Vienna.
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July 7
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is seen on the side of a roadway in Waveland, Miss.
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July 7
A decomposing fish lies in the water as workers pick up oil balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Waveland, Miss.
Lee Celano
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July 7
Chip Wood, an assessment biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, walks with two jars filled with water from the gulf. He was demonstrating for the media the baseline coastal sampling procedure at Galveston Island State Park in Galveston, Tex.
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July 7
Fisherman Arthur Reddick stands outside after meeting with top U.S. Labor Department officials in Phoenix, La., and telling them that he has not been able to get a job since he stopped fishing because of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 7
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at a news conference as, from left, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, Assistant Secretary of Interior Tom Strickland, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau, commander of the Louisiana National Guard, look on after a flyover of the Gulf Coast.
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July 6
Shrimp boats sit idle next to Lake Pontchartrain in Metairie, La. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has infiltrated Lake Pontchartrain for the first time.
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July 6
The U.S. Coast Guard requested a U.S. Navy MZ-3A Airship, a commercial A-1-70 series blimp like the one shown here, to support Deepwater Horizon Response operations to clean up the spill.
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July 6
Mary O'Sullivan protests against BP in Chicago. Shares of BP have climbed more than 10 percent from their low after losing about half their value after the start of the April 20 oil spill.
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July 6
Fishermen wait for weather to clear in Bayou La Batre, Ala. Oil spotting and skimming operations have been hampered by bad weather and heavy seas.
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July 6
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal looks down at the New Orleans coast of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.
Gerald Herbert
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July 5
An oil rig is seen offshore as waves crash against a jetty off of Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La. Heavy rain and scattered thunderstorms were predicted throughout the region into Wednesday.
Patrick Semansky
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July 5
Trussco employee Brian Foret, whose company provides cleaning services to the oil industry, stands on oiled rocks along the beach front in Port Fourchon, La.
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July 5
Former boat hand David Turner (center) and Villere Demolle, an out-of-work fisherman, hang out at the Beshel Boat Launch in East Pointe a La Hache, La. They are concerned for how the community is going to deal with the millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, causing economic difficulties throughout the region.
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July 5
A sample jar of tar balls found on Crystal Beach and Galveston's East Beach during the holiday weekend are displayed during a news conference at the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit in Texas City, Tex. Officials have confirmed that the tar balls discovered recently along the Galveston and Bolivar coastline are from the Deepwater Horizon, marking the first time oil from the spill has been found on Texas beaches.
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July 4
Smoke rises from the oil spill site, as natural gas is burned off. The drilling of two relief wells continues in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lyle Ratliff
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July 4
Fourth of July fireworks are reflected off the oil sheen on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala.
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July 4
"A Whale," a skimmer converted from a super tanker, is shown here 14 miles northwest of the BP oil spill site as Coast Guard officials test the vessel's effectiveness in capturing oil and separating it from seawater.
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July 4
Jackie Norwood on vacation from Oklahoma enjoys the beach despite the threat of contamination from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Biloxi, Mississippi. Jackie said she was not too concerned about the oil spill and that a day on an oily beach is better than a day in Oklahoma.
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July 4
An American flag is pitched in the sand as workers clear off some of the oil residue on the beach from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The oil spill may have a huge negative economic impact on gulf coast businesses during what should be a busy 4th of July.
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July 4
Empty beach chairs line the beach in Perdido Key, Fla. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts.
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July 4
An oil cleanup safety officer who preferred not to give his name holds up his Work/Rest and Water Consumption Table at the beach in Perdido Key, Fla. The guide shows how much cleanup crews are allowed to work in varying conditions of heat and humidity.
Dave Martin
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July 4
Oil cleanup workers carry their tools to the beach in Perdido Key, Fla.
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July 3
A seagull flies past an American flag in Bayou La Batre, Ala. Bayou La Batre is one of two towns on the Alabama coast that has cancelled their Fourth of July celebrations because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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July 3
A snail is seen covered in oil in marsh grass near Point Lydia in the Southeast corner of Biloxi Bay on the coast of St. Bernard Parish, La.
Gerald Herbert
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July 3
New Orleans Times Picayune photographer Matthew Hinton photographs oil as it is impacted by strong surf along the marsh shores near Point Lydia in the Southeast corner of Biloxi Bay on the coast of St. Bernard Parish, La.
Gerald Herbert
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July 3
A beach walker passes oil cleanup workers on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala. The cleanup workers outnumbered the numbers of tourists visiting the beach. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to affect the July Fourth weekend and businesses are concerned about a lack of tourists.
Dave Martin
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Jully 3
Workers clear off some of the oil on Fourchon Beach in Louisiana. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled into the gulf since the April 20 explosion.
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July 1
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (center) points out oil in the water to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus (wearing Navy hat) as they tour skimming operations near Bayou La Batre, Ala. The The world's largest oil-skimming vessel, which officials hope can scoop up to 21 million gallons of oily water a day, arrived in the gulf this week.
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July 1
A cleanup worker is coated in oil as he helps remove residue washing ashore in Gulfport, Miss.
Joe Raedle
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July 1
Workers demonstrate a sand-cleaning technology called Green Tech for evaluators from Florida's Department of Environmental Protection and BP on Pensacola Beach. The Florida DEP organized the event to find new ideas for treating the oil spill.
Melissa Nelson
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AP
July 1
A Northern Gannet seabird is cleaned by rehabilitators at a rescue facility set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fort Jackson, La.
Sean Gardner
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Reuters
June 30
A display of thousands of American flags placed on the National Mall by members of the Sierra Club spells out "Freedom From Oil."
Win McNamee
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June 30
Performance artist Adriana Disman, left, and Reina Potazinik perform "SpilLover" in New York's Times Square. During "SpilLover," created by artist Josephine Decker, six performance artists will spend a couple of hours delicately balancing full buckets of a mixture of water and food coloring resembling oil on their heads during the five days leading up to Independence Day.
Mary Altaffer
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AP
June 30
Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion fund for victims of the BP oil spill, testifies at a House Small Business Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. Feinberg told Congress that some of the claims he'll be asked to decide will involve making tough calls about who deserves compensation.
Jay Mallin
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Bloomberg
June 30
"A Whale," billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, is seen anchored on the Mississippi River in Boothville, La. The massive ship, which is as long as 3 1/2 football fields and stands 10 stories high, is designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day through 12 vents on either side of its bow.
Patrick Semansky
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AP
June 29
Vice President Joe Biden makes remarks with out-of-work fishermen at Pomes Seafood distributorship, which has shut down due to the oil spill, in New Orleans. Biden said the federal government has reached an agreement with Gulf Coast states to set safety levels for seafood coming out of the region in order to reopen closed fishing areas.
Gerald Herbert
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AP
June 29
Coast Guard MEC Brian Donohue takes a helicopter tour to inspect the waters for contamination near Grand Isle, La.
Joe Raedle
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June 29
Sarah Tegtmeier of Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research lifts a sheet to show a brown pelican covered with oil sheen at the Pensacola Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Facility in Pensacola, Fla.
Lyle Ratliff
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Reuters
June 30, 2010
Workers clean oil tar balls from Biloxi beach near Edgewater Mall in Mississippi.
James Edward Bates
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AP
June 30, 2010
Waves mixed with oil come ashore in Orange Beach, Ala. Heavy seas from Tropical Storm Alex helped push more oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster towards the coasts of Alabama and Florida.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 29, 2010
Containment booms and oil absorbent material are placed along a beach as cleanup efforts from effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill stopped due to bad weather created by Tropical Storm Alex in Elmer's Island, La.
Joe Raedle
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June 28
Workers move absorbent material as they try to capture some of the oil washing on to Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La.
Joe Raedle
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June 28
The shadow of a helicopter passes over oily streak in waters less than ten miles off the coast of Grand Isle, La.
Gregory Bull
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AP
June 28
Grayson Flowers surfs a wave filled with tar balls in Destin, Fla. Tourism on the Gulf coast is slumping, with some hotels and condominium owners saying their business is down by 50 percent.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 28
Tar balls ranging from the size of a quarter to the size of a man's fist were found washed ashore Biloxi, Miss. Mississippi beaches had been spared significant oil from the BP spill but now the residue is coming ashore.
Tim Isbell
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AP
June 28
Workers remove oil-absorbent material on Isle Grande Terre, La.
Gregory Bull
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AP
June 28
About three hundred BP contract workers clean the beaches in Biloxi, Miss., to remove tar balls that had washed ashore over the weekend.
Drew Tarter
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AP
June 27
Beachgoers play in the surf near the Destin Pass in Destin, Fla.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 25
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill swirls in waves off a beach in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Lee Celano
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Reuters
June 24
Mary Ann Sadler of Gulf Breeze, Fla., leans across police tape to take photos of oil cleanup efforts at Pensacola Beach, Fla., where officials have closed the public beaches to swimmers.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 24
Cleanup workers hired by BP pick up oil-soaked booms placed at the edge of the surf in Gulf Shores, Ala. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to wash ashore along the Alabama and Florida coasts.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 24
Beachgoers walk across oil-stained sand in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 24
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, speaks to oil workers at the Gulf Island Fabrication Yard in Houma, La. Jindal continued to speak out against the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, saying Thursday that it would kill thousands of Louisiana jobs.
Gregory Bull
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AP
June 24
Workers prepare to lay out new lines of boom to prevent oil from reaching the wetlands in Cocodrie, La.
Chris Graythen
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June 23
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal examines a spreader used to build man-made sand berms near the Chandeleur Islands off the coast of Louisiana. Jindal is pressuring federal authorities to allow dredging to resume in an area that federal authorities say is environmentally sensitive.
Patrick Semansky
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AP
June 23
Cela Scott of Los Angeles takes pictures of oil washed ashore with her phone at Pensacola Beach, Fla. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues to wash ashore along the Florida panhandle.
Michael Spooneybarger
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AP
June 23
Joe Warren of Gulf Breeze, Fla. consoles his wife Jean as they walk along the oil-damaged shoreline at Pensacola Beach, Fla.
Michael Spooneybarger
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AP
June 23
Susan Sundell of Salem, N.H., reacts to seeing oil washed ashore at Pensacola Beach, Fla. "I come visit my sister every year and it's the most beautiful place on earth. " Sundell said. "I didn't expect to react like this. It is just horrible. It's like going to a wake. I took pictures here on Sunday and it was beautiful."
Michael Spooneybarger
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AP
June 23
Oil cleanup workers in Florida and Alabama use portable lighting to illuminate the beach at night.
Dave Martin
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AP
June 23
John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health testifies during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill. The hearing focused on how worker health and safety are regulated and enforced by various parties from the oil rig to the shoreline.
Astrid Riecken
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June 23
Robert MacLean, senior veterinarian of the Audubon Nature Institute, left, and Michele Kelley, the institute's coordinator, handle a sea turtle as BP official Bob Dudley watches during a tour of the Audubon Institute's turtle rehabilitation center in New Orleans.
Cheryl Gerber
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AP
June 22
Jamie Caravella of Lafitte, La., explains her ideas for preventing oil from affecting local waters to Coast Guard Capt. Mary Austin. Caravella and other locals attended an open house in Lafitte about the gulf spill and its economic and environmental effects.
Gerald Herbert
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AP
June 22
Coast Guard Capt. Mary Austin speaks to Lafitte, La., residents at an informational open house.
Gerald Herbert
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AP
June 22
A ship makes its way through the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The White House is set to step up its legal battle to keep deep-water drilling on hold after oil companies persuaded a U.S. judge to overturn a six-month ban. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said late Tuesday that he would order a new moratorium "in the coming days" to reinstate a temporary ban aimed at ensuring offshore safety.
Greenpeace
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Reuters
June 22
A view of a dredging site at Plaquemines Parish, La. Federal authorities have called for the state to stop dredging operations in the area and to move farther away from the Chandeleur Islands, a sensitive chain of barrier islands.
Sean Gardner
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Reuters
June 21
Workers climb over a boom after cleaning oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on a beach in Grand Isle, La.
Charlie Neibergall
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AP
June 21
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill invades the beach in Port Fourchon, La.
Charlie Neibergall
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AP
June 21
Mayors from across the United states join New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, second from right, as he views the region affected by the BP oil disaster in Barataria Bay, near Lafitte, La. The spill has been called one of the largest environmental disasters in American history.
Sean Gardner
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Reuters
June 21
Oil-absorbent boom stretches out along the shoreline in Baratatria Bay as New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and other U.S. mayors view the region affected by the off-shore disaster.
Sean Gardner
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Reuters
June 20
Airboat pilot Michael Fabian displays oil on a glove near contaminated marsh grass in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana.
Patrick Semansky
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AP
June 18
A satellite image provided by NASA shows oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite took this picture. The oil appears as varying shades of white, as sunlight is reflected off its surface.
Advanced Land Imager
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AP
June 20
James McGee vacuums oil in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana.
Patrick Semansky
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AP
June 20
Absorbent boom weaves through oil-covered marsh grass at Bay Jimmy near Port Sulphur, La. The BP oil spill has been called one of the largest environmental disasters in American history.
Sean Gardner
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Reuters
June 20
The Rev. John Ryan greets parishioners at St. Anthony Church on a day designated as a day of prayer in response to the gulf oil spill in Lafitte, La. A resolution by Louisiana Republican Sen. Robert Adley made June 20 a day of prayer in the state of Louisiana for an end to the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis. The Deepwater Horizion drilling rig exploded April 20, leaking millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf Of Mexico.
Cheryl Gerber
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June 20
From left, Holly Casso, Christina Casso and Jay Casso pray at St. Anthony Church on a day of prayer in response to the gulf oil spill.
Cheryl Gerber
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June 19
Oil clouds the surface of Barataria Bay near Port Sulpher, La.
Sean Gardner
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June 19
Oil soaks the marsh grass in Bay Jimmy near Port Sulpher, La.
Sean Gardner
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June 19
An oil cleanup crew works in Gulf Shores, Ala. The BP oil spill is gushing as much as 60,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, the government said.
Kari Goodnough
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Bloomberg
June 19
Boom is deployed to contain oil in Perdido Bay in Orange Beach, Ala.
Kari Goodnough
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Bloomberg
June 19
Oil is burned off the surface of the water near the source of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lee Celano
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Reuters
June 19
The sun rises before the 5 a.m. start of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, with the yacht "Bob" owned by BP chief executive Tony Hayward, off the south coast of England. Spokeswoman Sheila Williams said Hayward took time off his duties handling the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico to see his boat participate in Saturday's race.
Chris Ison
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AP
June 18
Actor Kevin Costner, left, founding partner of Ocean Therapy Solutions Inc., Patrick Smith, chief operating office of, Ocean Therapy Solutions Inc., and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles answer questions from the media after boarding the barge holding Ocean Therapy's centrifuge machine designed to separate oil and water, in Port Fourchon, La.
Sean Gardner
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Reuters
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