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- 6/25: Biden, Mabus to visit Gulf coast
- 6/23: More oil gushing
- 6/22: Gulf rig owner criticizes President Obama's drilling halt
- 6/20: BP exec's yachting trip infuriates
- 6/19: Questions on who is in charge
- 6/18: BP's Hayward off spill duty, more
- 6/16: BP to create $20b escrow fund
Florida
9/20: Examination
Examiner Todd Farrar looks for evidence of oil in sand from below the water’s surface at Fort Pickens, Fla., on Sept. 17, 2010. Click to learn more about this Coast Guard photo.
9/17: Toxic boot
Almost two months after last being worn, this boot still has oil and chemical dispersant on it that haven’t broken down, observes American Birding Association photographer Drew Wheelan. Click to learn more.
8/13: Listening
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, center, listens to Florida community leaders at a July meeting in Pensacola. Click image for more information.
8/4: Food chain
University of Florida graduate student Mitzi Mize offers this artistic interpretation, “The Grand Food Chain,” as part of a summer project to express her angst about the Gulf catastrophe. Click image or headline to learn more.
7/23: Lonely umbrella
Ray Wishart of Lynn Haven, Fla., offers this juxtapoised portrait of a Florida beach with a lonely umbrella in the foreground and an oil skimmer in the background. Click photo or headline for more.
7/21:Oil fingers
Tammy Pruitt of Marshall, Texas, took this photo showing oil hugging the Gulf coast earlier this month during a flight to Dallas as the jet passed near the Florida-Alabama border. Click photo or headline to learn more.
VIDEO: Fla. Wildlife Federation on special session
Florida Wildlife Federation President Manley Fuller discusses the importance of today’s special legislative session on the drilling of oil off the state’s coast. View:
7/15: Released
Two newly-cleaned brown pelicans stretch their wings after being released July 12 at Gulfside City Park in Sanibel Island, Fla. Click headline or photo for more.
6/29: Signing up
Sierra Club intern Sean Ehrlich watches as the pirate “Redbeard” signs a petition on the Gulf spill at the Tradewinds resort in St. Petersburg, Fla. Click the photo or headline for more.
VIDEO, 6/27: FWF wants to ban oil drilling in Florida
Florida Wildlife Federation Executive Director Manley Fuller appeared on the public affairs show, “Facing Florida” to discuss how his organization wants to ban offshore drilling in Florida waters.
6/27: More Hands Across The Sand images
More images from the June 26 Hands Across the Sands events across the world.
6/26: Lots of hands
More than 2,000 people reportedly turned out for the Hands Across The Sand event today in South Miami Beach, Fla. It was one of hundreds events across the globe that protested offshore drilling for oil. Click the headline or picture to learn more.
6/24: Drenched
Pensacola Beach in Florida got drenched in oil that washed ashore Wednesday, as highlighted in this photo by Brenda Camper. Click the photo or headline for more.
6/20: Shrimp boats help
Fairhope, Ala., resident Skipper Tonsmeire sent along this June 17 photo of shrimp boats helping to skim oil out of the Gulf near Perdido Key. Click photo or headline for more. See our NEWS section for a new commentary about BetterGulf.org.
6/16: Standoff
Tennessee photographer Amy Jacobs sent this photo of a crab in a seeming standoff with tarballs on the beach at Gulf Shores, Ala. Click photo or headline to see more.
6/15: Boom “ineffective”
This aerial photo near Perdido Pass at the Alabama-Florida border on the Gulf is said to show “incomplete and ineffective booms.” Click the headline or image for more.
6/13 commentary: Spill pictures create record
Locally and across the country, people are frustrated that things are moving so slowly. They don’t know how to get out of the Groundhog Day-like water torture of oil — the slow, constant landfall of everything from tarballs and goo-covered detritus to oily seaweed and occasional globs of muck.
6/8: Tourists hitting beaches
Despite concerns over tarballs washing ashore, tourists flocked to the shore of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
6/6: Still life on beach
Oil clung to the side of this plastic bottle that washed ashore in Gulf Islands National Seashore early Sunday just east of Pensacola Beach, Fla. Click image to see more photos.
Computer model shows spill to reach Atlantic
JUNE 3, 2010 — A new computer model by a Colorado research group supported by the National Science Foundation shows oil from the Gulf spill likely will be pushed by currents into the Atlantic.