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Oil spill cleanup, containment efforts, hearings in wake of gulf disaster Cleanup and containment efforts continue at the Gulf of Mexico site of the oil spill following the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Oil floats on the surface in Pass A Loutre near Venice, La. BP launched an ambitious deep-sea operation to choke off the gushing oil leak on Wednesday, but President Obama cautioned Americans there was no guarantee it would work.
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May 26
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham (left) helps Governor Bobby Jindal (right) remove a fishing net from oil-contaminated water in Pass A Loutre near Venice, La.
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May 26
A team from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife looks for oiled pelicans and birds off Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle, La. Rescue crews braced for an influx of affected birds and animals as a heavy black tide seeped deeper into Louisiana's fragile coastal wetlands.
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Shrimp boats are seen parked in Venice, La., near the mouth of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, in this April 30, 2010 file photo.
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May 26
Cherie Tobias and her husband Boyd Tobias, of Meraux, La., pray at the First Baptist Church of Chalmette during a crisis prayer service.
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May 26
Minerals Management Service Director Elizabeth Birnbaum (right) listens to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco testify before the House Natural Resources Committee during a hearing on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers blasted MMS, the agency charged with regulating offshore drilling, for taking gifts from the companies it was supposed to monitor.
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May 26
Greenpeace protesters hold up banners as Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, left, and Deputy Secretary David Hayes testify on Capitol Hill before the House Committee on Natural Resources on "Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Strategy and Implications of the Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion."
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May 26
A frame grab taken from a BP live video feed, shows oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the broken pipe of an oil well. BP engineers armed with 50,000 barrels of dense mud and a fleet of robotic submarines are poised to attempt a "top kill" maneuver to plug the gushing well a mile below the surface.
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May 26
Photographs of the 11 crew members lost in the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are seen on display at a memorial service held by Transocean, the company that owned the rig, in Jackson, Miss.
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May 25
Transocean employee Larry Mills speaks during a memorial service held to honor the 11 crew members lost in the oil rig disaster. Each victim's family was given a bronze hard hat.
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May 25
Transocean President and CEO Steven Newman hugs a family member of one of the 11 lost crew members at a memorial service held in their honor.
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May 25
A boy looks at a model of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig during a memorial service for the 11 lost crew members.
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May 25
Douglas Inkley of the National Wildlife Federation stands near oil-soaked vegetation on an island impacted by the spill in Barataria Bay just inside the coast of Louisiana.
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May 25
Oil-absorbent material was put in place for the high tide on Elmer's Island in Grand Isle, La.
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May 25
Peter Denbigh checks water levels during a demonstration of a centrifugal separator, a device he, Dan Hill and Daniel Drumheller invented in Staunton, Va., to help clean oil from water. Their website, GulfClean.org, is a forum for other inventions and ideas for stopping the oil leak.
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May 25
Residents of Chalmette, La., look on with disgust as they sit in on a discussion with parish officials and a BP representative. Executives will face another round of tough questioning as federal hearings resume Wednesday in a hotel outside New Orleans.
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May 25
(From left to right ) Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes, and Director of National Pollution Funds Center of the US Coast Guard Craig Bennett, testify during a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington, D.C. The committee held the hearing to examine liability issues related to offshore oil production.
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May 25
Brown pelicans fly past an oil boom surrounding their island in Barataria Bay, La. BP plans to try to plug the leak with mud and cement Wednesday using a maneuver known as a "top kill."
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May 24
A worker places a plastic bag containing oiled sand in a pile while cleaning Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La. Oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the gulf has started drifting ashore along the Louisiana coast.
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May 24
BP chief executive Tony Hayward speaks at a news conference on the beach in Port Fourchon, La. Hayward visited the beach to observe cleanup efforts of the oil that washed ashore from last month's explosion.
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May 24
Harbor police talk to Greenpeace activists Scott Cardiff, right, and Lauren Valle as they paint messages on the Harvey Explorer ship at an industrial port at Port Fourchon, La. The activists used oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill to paint the words "Arctic Next?" on the bridge of the ship, which is scheduled to depart for Alaska to support drilling operations in July.
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May 24
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, right, is joined by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and White House energy czar Carol Browner during a briefing at the White House. Allen and Gibbs briefed reporters on the spill. The Obama administration has faced growing questions about whether it should take more control of the situation, rather than ceding so much of the decision-making about stopping the oil spill to BP.
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May 24
Codepink activists urging BP to clean up the spill stage a demonstration outside BP's corporate headquarters in Houston. The hole created from the Deepwater Horizon explosion continues to spew in quantities now thought to be three to five times the 5,000 barrels a day originally estimated.
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May 24
John Blazier, left, and Andy Porter walk to the top of a levee to get a view of a closed beach in Grand Isle, La. Local authorities closed the beaches on the island after oil from last month's oil rig explosion began to wash ashore.
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May 24
Crews try to clean an island covered in oil on the south part of East Bay. The U.S. government threatened to remove BP from efforts to seal a blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico if it doesn't do enough to stop the leak, though the government acknowledged only the company and the oil industry have the needed know-how.
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May 23
A worker contracted by BP scrapes oil from a beach after it was inundated by the oil spill in Port Fourchon, La.
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May 23
Booms try to hold off oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead as it reaches Cat Island.
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May 23
Oil reaches the marshlands on the northeast pass of the Mississippi Delta.
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May 23
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead washes up on the beach of Elmer's Island, a wildlife refuge, owned and maintained by the state of Louisiana.
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May 22
A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach in Port Fourchon, La. Officials now say that it may be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands affected by the massive oil spill that continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 23
An oil-covered pelican flaps its wings on an island in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana. The island is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well as terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills.
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May 23
Maura Wood of the National Wildlife Federation takes a water sample in an oily marsh near Pass-a-Loutre, La.
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May 20
Oil reaches a beach near the recently-dammed mouth to a wetlands area on Elmer's Island in Grand Isle, La.
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May 20
A bird flies over oily wetlands on Elmer's Island in Grand Isle, La. The oil came inland despite booms that were placed at the wetlands' mouth.
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May 20
A dead garfish lies in a marsh near Venice, La.
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May 20
National Wildlife Federation worker Emily Guidry examines oil buildup on a patch of reeds along the Louisiana coast south of Venice.
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May 20
A bulldozer drives along a beach as oil laps onto the shore on Elmer's Island in Grand Isle, La.
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May 20
Julie Cambre walks past oil that has washed onto a beach in Grand Isle, La.
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May 20
Controlled burns are conducted in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to burn off some of the oil in the water.
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May 19
An oil-covered crab is seen on a beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River near Venice, La.
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May 19
Greenpeace worker Lindsey Allen collects samples of oil that washed into the marshlands near Venice, La.
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May 19
Workers load oil-absorbent material onto boats at the Louisiana Fish and Wildlife management area in Pass-a-Loutre, La.
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May 19
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), center, and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, right, tour the oil-impacted marsh of Pass-a-Loutre, La.
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May 19
Students at the LeBaron Hairdressing Academy in New Bedford, Mass., cut hair that will be donated to an organization that can use it to create absorbent mats to help clean up the oil spill.
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May 19
Greenpeace staff member Lindsey Allen takes a water sample in an oily marsh near South Pass, La.
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May 19
A worker at Slickbar Products, a company that makes oil booms and other products designed to clean up oil spills, unfurls a boom at the company's warehouse in Seymour, Conn. Employees at the company have been working two shifts to meet the needs of emergency workers attempting to contain the oil spill. Slickbar has already shipped more than 14,000 feet of booms to the Gulf of Mexico and plans on sending another 40,000.
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May 19
Thick, rust-colored ribbons of emulsified oil encroach on the shores of the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Area as dark pools of oil form near the Louisiana coast.
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May 18
The first sea turtle rescued from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill lies soaped up in its bathtub shortly after arriving at the Audubon Aquarium's Aquatics Center on New Orleans' west bank. The turtle was found about 35 miles from Venice, La.
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May 18
The first sea turtle rescued from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a baby Kemp's ridley, gets its mouth washed out shortly after arrival at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans.
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May 18
A NASA satellite image shows the oil appearing as a dull gray slick on the water's surface, stretching south from the Mississippi Delta into the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 17
A ship sprays water near a rig in heavy surface oil in the Gulf of Mexico as oil continues to leak. As tar balls turned up in Florida on Tuesday, concern heightened about how far currents are carrying the oil.
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May 18
Oil sits on a bank in the mouth of the Mississippi River where it meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana.
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May 18
A boat passes containment booms anchored around the west bank of the south pass in the mouth of the Mississippi River off the coast of Louisiana.
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May 18
Oil clings to reeds on the banks of the breakwater where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana.
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May 18
Dispersed oil swirls in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 20 miles from the site of the BP oil spill. BP continues to siphon some of the oil gushing from a damaged well on the gulf floor but remained days from capping the leak.
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May 18
BP workers stand on a barge loaded with absorption material on the banks of the Mississippi River off the coast of Louisiana May 18. The company said it was removing 2,000 barrels of oil a day from the leak, up from 1,000.
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May 18
Dispersed oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico close to the site of the oil spill as the Discoverer Enterprise drill ship is seen on the horizon. BP has begun to siphon away some of the oil from the leaking well, using a tube inserted into the broken pipe.
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May 18
Ships make their way through surface oil near a barge funneling oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.
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May 18
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is seen clumped on roseau cane in the Northeast Pass of the Mississippi River on the coast of Louisiana. Oil has started to wash into Louisiana's coastal marshes, which could have devastating effects on the regional seafood industry.
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May 18
Greenpeace senior campaigner Lindsey Allen walks through a patch of oil on the breakwater where the Mississippi River where meets the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 18
A dragonfly tries to clean itself after getting stuck to marsh grass covered in oil in Garden Island Bay on Louisiana's coast.
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May 18
Greenpeace senior campaigner Lindsey Allen attempts to save a small crab covered in oil along the shore near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
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May 18
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) holds a map predicting the spread of oil during a hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Capitol Hill.
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May 18
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar watches a video of an effort to stem the flow of oil from the Gulf of Mexico, as he testifies at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill.
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May 18
This frame grab provided by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, received from BP, details oil gushing underwater.
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May 18
Greenpeace marine biologist Paul Horsman surveys oil pooled between reeds and brush on the shoreline of the east bank in the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
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May 17
Greenpeace volunteer Lauren Valle walks along a sandy beach on the east bank of the Mississippi River where it meets the Gulf of Mexico, as globs of oil wash up on shore in Louisiana.
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May 17
Oil drips from the rubber gloves of Greenpeace marine biologist Paul Horsman as he shows oil deposits wrapped around rope on the breakwater in the mouth of the Mississippi River where it meets the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 17
Oil coats beach sand at the mouth of the Mississippi River, south of Venice, La. BP announced Monday that it is successfully siphoning off 1,000 barrels of oil per day from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico April 22, killing 11 crew members. The amount of oil escaping from the well is a matter of dispute, making the success of BP's effort difficult for regulators to gauge.
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May 17
Oil booms stretch along the bank at the mouth of the Mississippi River near Venice, La.
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May 17
A boat floats on the water as a clump of dispersed oil sits on the surface at the south pass of the Mississippi River.
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May 17
Oil coats a patch of beach sand at the mouth of the Mississippi River near Venice, La.
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May 17
Chan Darasy Mao demonstrates how he cleans oil deposits off containment booms with safety equipment supplied by BP, on his shrimp boat docked at Joshua's Marina in Buras, La. Mao, like several other fisherman in the community, has been hired by BP to help with cleanup efforts of last month's oil spill, which is threatening the entire gulf region.
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May 16
People from the Gulf Coast shrimping/fishing community and environmental groups at Grand Isle, La., create the message "Paradise Lost," calling for urgent action to address the economic and environmental devastation from the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The event was sponsored by the Commercial Fisherman of America and Global Green USA.
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May 16
Fishing boat maintenance worker Robert Utech wipes a tear while talking about his mounting debt, in Buras, La. Utech said his work hours have been cut in half, as many fishing boats are idle because of the oil-contaminated waters offshore. Unable to pay his bills, Utech is one of thousands of Gulf coast residents who have been affected by the oil spill.
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May 16
The Rev. Bill Nguyen follows Rush Lyons during a procession at the Saint Michael's Church, where prayers for the outcome of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill were said, in Coden, Ala.
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May 16
A piece of boom used as protection against oil drifting toward land sits on a beach as members of the environmental group Greenpeace look for signs of oil in Southwest Pass, La.
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May 15
A glob of oil thought to be from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sits on a reed on a beach in Southwest Pass, La.
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May 15
Erica Miller, left, Heather Nevill, center and Danene Birtell clean a brown pelican at the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, La.
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May 15
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar speaks to the media during a visit to the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, La.
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May 15
A seagull flies near the massive BP oil spill and over sensitive marshlands near Venice, La.
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May 14
Workers search the beach for tar balls that washed ashore on Dauphin Island, Ala.
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May 14
A boat pulls a boom into the Gulf of Mexico at Biloxi, Miss. The community was bracing for remnants of the oil spill to reach shore.
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May 14
A Black Hawk helicopter flies over the marshes of St. Mary Parish in Louisiana with Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), who met with local officials to monitor the implementation of the parish's protection plan.
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May 13
Waves break on one of the barrier islands off Louisiana's St. Mary Parish.
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May 13
What appears to be small globs of oil washed ashore in Grand Isle, La., as efforts continue to contain BP's massive oil spill. The substance is being tested to see if it is from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, which is still spewing an estimated 1,000-5,000 barrels a day into the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 13
Tin Nguyen passes time in the shrimp boat he works on after the owner shut down operations due to the massive oil spill. The owner said she is losing $65,000 a month by having her fleet of five boats sitting at the dock instead of shrimping.
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May 13
Fallguy Lee passes the time by playing solitaire on the shrimp boat he works on after the owner shut down operations due to the oil spill.
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May 13
Sea birds roost at Breton National Wildlife Refuge off the coast of Louisiana. The island is surrounded by booms in an attempt to protect the reserve.
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May 13
A small pollution containment chamber, known as the top hat, is seen being lowered into water on video screens onboard the ship Viking Poseidon. The chamber will be maneuvered over the leak in an attempt to contain the the oil.
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May 11
David Scott pilots a remotely operated vehicle as a small pollution containment chamber, known as the "top hat," is lowered toward the leak.
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May 11
Scientists from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries survey the beach at Port Fourchon, La.
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May 13
Oil booms are unloaded in Hopedale, La.
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May 13
Workers take a break from efforts to protect the marshland in Hopedale, La.
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May 13
Alex Holbert, 5, of Long Beach, Miss., plays in the sand. Gulf Coast states are trying to encourage tourism even as the oil spill continues.
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May 12
At a news conference, from left, Sens. Maria Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer announce a bill to limit off-shore oil drilling. At left is a photo of the Deepwater Horizon before it sank last month.
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May 13
A Coast Guard plane flies over the Development Driller III oil drilling platform, which is drilling a relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana.
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May 12
A charter boat captain, right, registers to apply for an economic loss check from BP as another waits in Grand Isle, La. The captains said they had lost most of their scheduled trips so far this season because of the oil spill.
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May 12
Straw barriers line Dauphin Island, Ala., to protect it from the oil spill. BP said the spill in the Gulf of Mexico had cost it $450 million so far, an increase of $100 million on the figure reported earlier in the week.
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May 12
Crews build sand barriers in Dauphin Island, Ala., to protect it from the oil spill originated by the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.
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May 12
Protesters rally at the BP Green Curve ARCO gas station in Los Angeles during a national day of action against BP for its catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 12
Demonstrators protest BP's oil spill outside the company's offices in San Francisco.
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May 12
Workers clean a beach after tar balls washed up, as efforts continue to contain BP's massive oil spill, in South Pass, La.
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May 12
Jessica Lass, a press secretary, looks at tar balls while accompanying scientists with the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, to test air quality for volatile organic compound levels that could be a human health concern, on a visit to South Pass, La.
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The Washington Post
May 12
Gina Solomon, senior scientist with NRDC, tests air quality for volatile organic compound levels that could be a human health concern, on a visit to South Pass, La. She did not find anything extreme.
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May 12
Jessica Lass looks at tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in South Pass, La.
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May 12
An alpaca has his neck fur sheared at Eastland Alpaca Farm in Mount Joy, Pa. Hair from more than 100 central Pennsylvania alpacas is on its way to the Gulf of Mexico to soak up oil that's being released by a leaking well. The owners of the Eastland Alpaca Farm say they're sending about 200 pounds of waste fibers to a warehouse in Florida where it will be used in booms to surround and soak up spilled oil.
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May 11
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seen from a helicopter.
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May 12
Oil and gas stream from the riser of the Deepwater Horizon well in a video frame grab. BP officials will decide what method they will try to stop a gushing blown-out undersea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico threatening the economy and environment of four U.S. states, a company executive said on Wednesday.
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May 11
Oil and gas stream from the riser of the Deepwater Horizon well in a video frame grab. BP officials will decide what method they will try to stop a gushing blown-out undersea oil well in the Gulf of Mexico threatening the economy and environment of four U.S. states, a company executive said on Wednesday.
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May 11
An image from BP shows the main oil leak at the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 11
A dolphin lies on dead on a beach on Horn Island, Miss., in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials say that at least six dead dolphins have been found on the Gulf Coast since May 2. Authorities don't know whether the animals died from the oil in the Gulf or from other causes.
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May 11
During a break of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on offshore oil and gas development in Washington, BP America President Lamar McKay passes protester Tighe Barry of Los Angeles.
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The Washington Post
May 11
BP's Lamar McKay, left, Transocean's Steven Newman and Halliburton's Tim Probert sit during a break in the Senate hearing. The executives used the hearing to try and deflect blame from their respective companies.
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May 11
Inmates from a La Fourche parish jail on a work release program fill giant sandbags in Port Fourchon, La. U.S. Army National Guard troops were dropping the sandbags from helicopters to protect marshes from the BP oil spill offshore.
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May 11
Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley address the media during a briefing at the Unified Command Center inside the Mobile Convention Center in Mobile, Ala.
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May 11
Taylor Kienholz of Miami, left, and others carry a black plastic tarp meant to symbolize an oil spill over sun bathers during a protest against off-shore drilling in Miami Beach.
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May 11
Demonstrators stand with a 50-foot banner in front of the White House. The banner was signed by gulf residents and marched from the Department of Interior to the White House.
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May 11
Sunbathers sit behind a wall of hay bales, used to absorb any oil that might come ashore, on Dauphin Island, Ala. Oil workers, volunteers and the military have been battling to shut off the gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and stop the huge spreading slick from reaching major ports, tourist beaches, wildlife refuges and fishing grounds.
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Reuters
May 11
Alabama Army National Guard Major Sam Ledbetter surveys the measures taken to protect the shore of Dauphin Island, Ala.
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May 11
A dead fish, which washed up on the beach, has been marked by a cleanup crew on Dauphin Island, Ala.
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May 11
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal points to a map showing the areas that might be affected by the massive oil spill, as he meets with the media in Chauvin, La. Efforts to contain the spill, including a 98-ton containment box to cap the leak, have done little to slow its flow.
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May 11
An Air Force C-17 cargo plane from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, delivers oil booms, floats, skimmer boats and other items at Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, La. The supplies were stored in Alaska as part of a required oil response supply and were transferred by the Unified Command and National Incident Command to help in protection of the Louisiana coast from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This was the third of 10 expected flights from Elmendorf.
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May 11
Scot Knapp, a crew member aboard the supply vessel Joe Griffin, turns a valve to transfer fuel to the Development Driller III, which is drilling the relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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May 11
Gloves, dish soap and other equipment are handy at a bird rehabilitation center run by the Tri-State Bird and International Bird Rescue Research Center in Fort Jackson, La. There have been only a few oiled birds rescued so far, but some wildlife rescuers expressed concern that there might be more they can't reach without more resources and larger boats. They have been ready and on standby in the event there is a large-scale impact on the wildlife.
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The Washington Post
May 11
Jay Holcomb, executive director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, talks about a pelican recovering from being oiled by the Deepwater Horizon spill as the bird sits in a pool at the rehabilitation center.
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May 11
Shoreline cleanup crews collect and dispose of gelatin tar balls that have been found washing ashore on the west side of the South Pass near Port Eades, La.
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May 11
Oily water is seen at sunset at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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May 11
A second containment device is lowered at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill after a first attempt with a larger device failed. This time steps are being taken to prevent a build-up of ice in the containment vessel.
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May 11
The Viking Poseidon, which delivered the second containment device to be lowered to the sea floor, sits at sunset before deploying the device at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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May 11
The smaller pollution containment chamber, known as a "top hat," is loaded onto the deck of the motor vessel Gulf Protector at Wild Well Control Inc. in Port Fourchon, La.
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May 10
The "top hat" is dropped into the Gulf of Mexico. It was expected to be operational by the end of the week.
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May 10
The "top hat" is dropped into the Gulf of Mexico. It was expected to be operational by the end of the week.
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