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Gulf oil spill; coastal impact (click to see all 45 photos)
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Deepwater Horizon exploded about 11 p.m. on April 20 and later sank. Oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico. Visit our special report page for the latest reports on the gulf oil disaster.
A laughing gull coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is coming ashore in large volumes across southern Louisiana coastal areas. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A trawler covered in oil pulls oil covered booms through Barataria Bay just inland from the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Friday, June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A bird flies above oil on the Gulf of Mexico off of East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
BP CEO Tony Hayward, standing in the BP command center in Houston on Thursday, June 3, updates reporters on efforts to clean up the catastrophic oil spill off the Louisiana coast. (AP Photo/POOL, Pat Sullivan)
A laughing gull coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A brown pelican coated in heavy floats in the water June 4, 2010 near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A dead fish coated in heavy oil floats near shore June 4, 2010 near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Boats work to secure oil containment booms in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Friday, June 4, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
President Barack Obama is saluted as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, June 4, 2010, en route to the Louisiana Gulf Coast regionto visit areas affected by the BP oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
A Brown Pelican sits on the beach covered in oil 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. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A bird covered in oil flails in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Members of the Louisiana National Guard drop sandbags at Pelican Island off the coast of Buras, La., on Thursday, June 3 to fend off oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Hermit crabs covered in reddish-brown oil are shown on the coast at Dauphin Island, Ala., Tuesday, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, John David Mercer)
Oil surrounds the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sand now fills a pass that once led into a backwater lagoon in Gulf Shores, Ala., Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Workers filled the pass to keep any oil from getting into the lagoon. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
A hermit crab and oil that washed ashore along the Gulf of Mexico coastline of Dauphin Island, Ala. are seen inside a boot print Tuesday June 1, 2010. Red-brown oil is making its first appearance on the Alabama island near the mouth of Mobile Bay, three weeks after tar balls were found there. The national incident commander overseeing the response to the spill, on Tuesday described the spill as a series of patches rather than one continuous slick. Donald Williamson, director of the state Department of Public Health, said Alabama officials believe the oil at Dauphin Island is one of those patches. (AP Photo/Press-Register, John David Mercer)
Memorial crosses symbolizing what is lost due to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill stand in the front yard of a house in Grand Isle, La., Tuesday, June 1, 2010. "This is breaking people," property owner Patrick Shay, not pictured, said of the spill's effect on Grand Isle residents. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Louisiana National Guard Sgt. Chad Birch releases water from a hose used to fill a tiger dam on a beach in Grand Isle, La., Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The National Guard is working around the clock to complete the dam, which is designed to protect the island's entire shoreline along the Gulf of Mexico from oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Oil drips from a glove dipped into the water during a tour by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal of an area impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at Pass a Loutre, La. on Wednesday, June 2. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Mary Smith of Theodore, Ala., watches over her grandchildren as a large crew of clean up workers walk along the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala. on Wednesday, June 2. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Contract workers from BP use skimmers to clean oil from a marsh near Pass a Loutre on Tuesday, June 1 near Venice, Louisiana. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Members of the Louisiana National Guard run from underneath a Chinook helicopter after hooking up sandbags for deployment against oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Buras, La. on Tuesday, June 1. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A supply vessel passes through an oil sheen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana on Monday, May 31. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A supply vessel passes through oil floating near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana on Monday, May 31. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A worker leaves the beach as storm clouds approach in Grand Isle, La. on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In this May 22. 2010 photo, nesting pelicans are seen landing as oil washes ashore on an island in Barataria Bay that is home to hundreds of brown pelicans, as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now impacting large stretches of the Louisiana Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Oil booms sit in a marsh after being impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Pass a Loutre, La., Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Pelican eggs that appear to be stained with oil sit in a nest on an island in Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. The island, which is being impacted from oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
An oil-soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay on Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A young heron sits dying amidst oil underneath a mangrove on an island in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
A worker shovels oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
In this Sunday, May 23, 2010 photo, 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. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Daniel Beltrá)
In this Sunday, May 23, 2010 photo, crews try to clean an island covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the South part of East Bay, south of Venice, La. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Daniel Beltrá)
In this May, 23, 2010 photo, 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. (AP Photo/Plaquemines Parish Government)
A crab skirts tarballs of oil on a beach at sunrise on May 23, 2010 on Grand Isle, Louisiana. Officials now say that it may be impossible to clean the coastal wetlands affected by the massive oil spill that continues gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A dead oil-covered fish lies on a beach on May 23, 2010 on Grand Isle, Louisiana. Officials now say that it may be impossible to clean the coastal wetlands affected by the massive oil spill that continues gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach on May 23, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. 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 gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach on May 23, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Officials now say that it may be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands affected by the massive oil spill which continues gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
An oil-stained brown pelican (L), stands with its clean counterparts on an island in Barataria Bay on May 24, 2010. The island is home to thousands of brown pelicans, egrets and roseate spoonbills, many of which are now stained by oil. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Brown pelicans fly past an oil boom surrounding their island on May 24, 2010 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
An oil-stained brown pelican (R), stands next to a clean brown pelican on an island on May 24, 2010 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Residents look on with disgust as they sit in on an discussion with parish officials and a BP representative on May 25, 2010 in Chalmette, Louisiana. Officials now say that it may be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands affected by the massive oil spill which continues gushing in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
