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This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off-shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The Coast Guard by sea and air planned to search overnight for 11 workers missing since a thunderous April 20 explosion rocked the oil drilling platform.

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In this aerial photo taken Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns.

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In this aerial photo taken Wednesday, April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns.

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In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf More Photos

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This Wednesday, April 21, 2010, aerial photo shows oil in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns.

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An oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, April 21, 2010.

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Family members of Eugene Moss, 37, of Jayess, Miss., who was on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, read news on their PDAs as they await his arrival with fellow crew members who were safely evacuated, in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Left to right are David Sneathern, nephew, his fiance Crystal Buffington, and Eugene's daughter Jasmyn Moss.

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Rescue ships attempt to put out fires on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Thursday, April 22, 2010.

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The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns and begins to collapse into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, April 22, 2010.

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Rescue boats spray the fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Thursday, April 22, 2010.

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U.S. Coast Guard, response boats work to clean up oil where the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank Thursday April 22, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexcio. The mobile offshore drilling platform was engulfed in flames after an explosion April 20.

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This image of the Gulf Coast and the oil spill, taken on April 25 by NASA's Aqua satellite and using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, shows the Mississippi Delta on the left and the wide oil slick to the right.

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A welder fabricates a portion of the BP subsea oil recovery system chamber at Wild Well Control, Inc. in Port Fourchon, La., April 26, 2010. The chamber was used in an unsuccessful attempt to contain an oil leak related to the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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In this aerial photo taken over the Gulf of Mexico, a boat and crew work in oil leaking from a pipeline at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, Monday, April 26, 2010.

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A worker on the oil skimmer Louisiana Responder looks over oil booms as they collect oil from a leaking pipeline that resulted from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana on April 27, 2010.

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Gov. Charlie Crist spoke of his concern about the oil spill in the gulf spreading into Florida waters and the safety of the technology used on the oil rig in a news conference on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in Tallahassee, Fla.

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An oil skimmer collects oil April 27, 2010, from a leaking pipeline that resulted from the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana.

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Starfish are seen washed ashore on the Chandeleur Islands, home of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, is seen off the Southeastern coast of Louisiana, Tuesday, April 27, 2010. The barrier islands are at risk from a growing oil spill and leak in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last week.

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A boat floats beside a controlled burn of leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico April 28, 2010.

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This April 28, 2010 photo released by Greenpeace, shows an aerial view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana, where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread. The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than believed and as the government grows concerned that the rig's operator is ill-equipped to contain it, officials are offering a military response to try to avert a massive environmental disaster along the ecologically fragile U.S. coastline.

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Dr. Erica Miller, with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, works to give a dose of Pepto-Bismol to a Northern Gannet bird, normally white when full grown, which is covered in oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, April 30, 2010.

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Members of Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research and the International Bird Research Center hydrate a Northern Gannet bird, which was covered in oil and cleaned from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, at a cleaning facility in Fort Jackson, La., May 1, 2010.

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A large drum fish lies washed up on the beach in Long Beach, Miss., Sunday, May 2, 2010. The cause of death is undetermined.

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Colonies of brown pelicans and seagulls gather in the Breton Sound of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Wildlife are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting from last week's explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

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Birds fly past oil booms that were placed in preparation of the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig along the shoreline, Saturday, May 1, 2010, south of Venice, Louisiana. Wildlife in the region is vulnerable to the looming oil spill from last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

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Herman Moffett of Hattiesburg, Miss., tries to unhook a crab he caught while fishing at Henderson Point in Bay St. Louis Miss. on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Wildlife are facing threats to their habitat due to the uncapped oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Oil blobs and oil sheen are seen in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Cleanup and containment of a massive oil slick was still going on.

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An oil-stained cattle egret is seen on the deck of the supply vessel Joe Griffin, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill containment efforts in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 9, 2010.

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A dolphin swims near a marker for an oyster bed, right, in Bayou Pete, a tributary of Breton Sound off the coast of Louisiana on Sunday, May 2, 2010. Wildlife is vulnerable to the looming oil spill from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in Gulf of Mexico.

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Jacob Terrebone pours shrimp from the Bub-Poot-Nae's catch into a buyer's cooler, Sunday, May 2, 2010, at the Venice Marina in Venice, La. NOAA is restricting commercial and recreational fishing in oil-affected portions of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Oil from the leaking Deep Horizon oil rig is seen swirling through the currents in the Gulf of Mexico, May 6, 2010.

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Veterinarians Erica Miller, right, and Heather Nevill clean a Brown Pelican Saturday, May 15, 2010, at the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Buras, La. The bird was rescued after being exposed to oil in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform more than three weeks before.

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In this Tuesday May 18, 2010 photo provided by the Audubon Aquarium, 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, in New Orleans. The turtle was found about 35 miles from Venice, La., and was brought by boat and vehicle to New Orleans.

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A dragonfly tries to clean itself as it is stuck to marsh grass covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Garden Island Bay on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana near Venice, Tuesday, May 18, 2010.

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Oil is seen on river cane at the mouth of the Mississippi River, south of Venice, La. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has started drifting ashore along the Louisiana coast.

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A Tuesday, May 18, 2010, aerial photo provided by the Louisiana Governor's office shows thick, rust-colored ribbons of emulsified oil encroaching on the shores of the Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area, dark pools of oil forming near the coast, and oil overtopping protective booms.

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A dragonfly is stuck to marsh grass covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Garden Island Bay on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, near Venice, Tuesday, May 18, 2010.

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Greenpeace worker Lindsey Allen collects samples of oil that washed up along the mouth of the Mississippi River near Venice, La., May 19, 2010.

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Unidentified Coast Guard personnel carry off a dead oil-covered pelican that was found on North Breton Island, La., Thursday, May 20, 2010.

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Workers construct a damn to keep oil, bottom left, from entering wetlands on Elmer's Island in Grand Isle, La., May 20, 2010.

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Pelicans fly past a nest of eggs on an island off the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The island, home to hundreds of Brown Pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and Roseated Spoonbills has been impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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The site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is busy with boats cleaning up the spill on the surface and boats and rigs working to collect the leaking oil and shut the leak down on Saturday, May 22, 2010.

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Oil is seen on the the bill of a pelican on an island in Barataria Bay just off the the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010.

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The site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is busy with boats cleaning up the spill on the surface and boats and rigs working to collect the leaking oil and shut the leak down on Saturday, May 22, 2010.

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Workers clean up oil on a small island near South Pass, La., on Saturday, May 22, 2010, near the mouth of the Mississippi River as oil continues to hit land.

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An oil soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay just inside the the coast of Louisiana, May 23, 2010.

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A young heron sits dying amid oil splatterings underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010.

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In this Sunday, May 23, 2010 photo provided by Greenpeace, crews try to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill along the Mississippi Delta, just east of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

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A soaked oil boom and oil are seen as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson tours marshes impacted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Pass a Loutre, La., on Monday, May 24, 2010.

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In this May, 23, 2010, photo provided by the Plaquemines Parish, La. government, a dead oil-covered dolphin lies on the ground in Venice, La. The dolphin was spotted on May 22 during a fly-over of the southwest area of the Mississippi River by U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials.

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A worker places a plastic bag containing oiled sand in a pile while cleaning Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. 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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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., on May 24, 2010. Local authorities closed the beaches on the island after oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion began to wash ashore.

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, center, speaks at a press conference in Galliano, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. Standing behind Napolitano are Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., left, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The cabinet secretaries joined a bipartisan Senate delegation on a flyover of areas affected by oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

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BP CEO Tony Hayward, center, speaks at a press conference on Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. Hayward visited the beach to observe efforts to clean oil that washed ashore from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf More Photos

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left of center, speaks at a press conference in Galliano, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. Standing behind Jindal are Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The cabinet secretaries joined a bipartisan Senate delegation on a flyover of areas affected by oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., center, speaks at a press conference in Galliano, La., on May 24, 2010. Standing behind Durbin are Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left, Sen., Mary Landrieu, D-La., Sen. David Vitter, R-La., Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The cabinet secretaries joined a bipartisan Senate delegation on a flyover of areas affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Rae Abileah from San Francisco yells out slogans outside BP headquarters in Houston Monday, May 24, 2010, at a staged protest against the catastrophic oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.

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Members of Code Pink march toward BP headquarters in Houston on May 24, 2010, to stage a protest against the catastrophic oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.

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Tighe Barry, left, pours oil on Medea Benjamin, center, outside BP headquarters in Houston Monday, May 24, 2010, during a staged protest against the catastrophic oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. Full Coverage: Disaster in the Gulf More Photos

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President Barack Obama, left, picks up a "tar ball" as LaFourche Parish president Charlotte Randolph, center, and U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, look on during a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill, Friday, May 28, 2010, in Port Fourchon, La.

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A bird covered in oil flails in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

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A bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

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A victim of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a Brown Pelican sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast after being drenched in oil, June 3, 2010.

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A worker picks up blobs of oil with absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., June 4, 2010.

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An oil-covered pelican sits stuck in thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010.

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An oil-covered pelican sits in thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010.

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A dead oil-covered pelican is seen in beached oil on the North shore of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010.

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Plaquemines Parish coastal zone director P.J. Hahn lifts an oil-covered pelican which was stuck in oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010.

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A dead Brown Pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill lies on the beach of a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, La, Sunday, June 6, 2010.

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Hermit crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil from the the Deepwater Horizon spill on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, La, Sunday, June 6, 2010.

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An oil-stained Brown Pelican chick stands among oily sticks and an oil jug on Cat Island, La. Sunday, June 6, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continued to move inland along several gulf states.

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A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay, off the coast of Louisiana, Monday, June, 7, 2010.

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Associated Press journalist Rich Matthews dives into the waters in the Gulf of Mexico on June 7, 2010, to investigate what we aren't seeing from overhead photos.

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AP journalist Rich Matthews dives into oily water on June 7, 2010.

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A photo taken by Matthews underwater during his dive.

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A photo of an oil plume taken by Matthews under water during his June 7, 2010, dive.

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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

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A brown pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast after being drenched in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on June 10, 2010. Of all the efforts by all the workers and volunteers responding now to the nation's worst offshore spill, the attempts to cleanse these animals and set them free tug hardest on the heartstrings.

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President Barack Obama walks with Alabama Gov. Bob Riley as he looks at oil containment booms being cleaned as they tours the Theodore Staging Facility in Theodore, Ala., as he visits the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill Monday, June 14, 2010.

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President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as they visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., June 15, 2010.

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Oil cleanup crews make their morning patrol along the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Wednesday, June 16, 2010. New waves of oil have not come ashore and cleanup work continues, leaving Alabama's beaches in much better condition than just a few days earlier.

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Thomas and Alicia Barrios have dinner in their nearly empty restaurant on June 25, 2010, which lost most of its daily business since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,with their children Alyssa, 10, left, and, Thomas, Jr., 18, in Golden Meadow, La.

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A long barrier to guard against oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sits on Elmers Island, La., Friday, June 25, 2010.

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Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Director P.J. Hahn rescues a heavily oiled bird from the waters of Barataria Bay which are laden with oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, La., on June 26, 2010.

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A heavily oiled bird struggles to climb onto a boom from the waters of Barataria Bay, which are laden with oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, La., Saturday, June 26, 2010.

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Dolphins swim near a boat carrying the Florida governor on a tour of oil skimming efforts in Pensacola Bay in Pensacola, Fla., Saturday, June 26, 2010. Small amounts of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster have started coming ashore on the Florida and Alabama coast.

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An unidentified girl avoids puddles of oil on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Friday, July 2, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to come ashore over the July 4th weekend.

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ctor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system to separate oil and water, talks to Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser, right, while aboard the Ella G. vessel to be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's machines, in Port Fourchon, La., Thursday July 8, 2010.

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BP COO Doug Suttles and actor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy, announce the Ella G. vessel to be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system, in Port Fourchon, La., Thursday July 8, 2010. The Ella G, once an offshore supply barge, has been refitted to skim and separate oil from the BP spill, making for a more efficient way to remove petroleum from the Gulf waters.

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Jimmy Buffett performs Sunday, July 11, 2010, in Gulf Shores, Ala. The free concert attended by tens of thousands of people was meant to help the Gulf Coast through the oil spill crisis.

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Vessels operate in the area of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on the Gulf of Mexico, July 13, 2010. BP officials have placed a containment cap over the leak in hopes that the flow of oil will be diminished.

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A citizens of Plaquemines Parish, La., makes his opinion clear with a road sign along La. hwy. 23, south of Belle Chasse on July 13, 2010.

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An oil slick is seen in the Gulf of Mexico, Thursday, July 15, 2010.

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Drilling rigs and workboats operate at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, July 16, 2010. The wellhead has been capped and BP is continuing to test the integrity of the well before resuming production.

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An oil slick sits on the surface of the water a few miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 17, 2010.

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A glob of oil that washed up with large patches of seaweed appears along the beaches on the west end of Dauphin Island, Ala., Monday, July 26, 2010.

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A response vessel is seen along a line of emulsified oil between the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site and the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, Monday, July 26, 2010.

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One hundred days after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion, Cypress trees killed by saltwater intrusion are seen in wetlands near Houma, La., Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Environmentalists are calling on the White House to speed up the restoration of the oil-damaged Mississippi River delta by getting BP PLC to pay $5 billion now for environmental damage caused by the spill.

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A skimming boat is seen amongst a large stretch of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Timbalier Bay, off the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 28, 2010.

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