Recent news about the Gulf oil spill
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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
Louisiana
11/16: Abandoned
Abandoned boom along Bay Jimmy in Louisiana highlights this photo shot by the Gulf Restoration Network. Click for more.
11/11: Jammin’
———– Gulf Restoration Network was the nonprofit partner of Voodoo Weekend earlier this month where Big Sam, Tab and Cyril with VOW performed in New Orleans’ City Park. Click for more.
11/10: Hands
Here’s a photo of a study of a fisherman’s hands that California photographer Bobby Moon took during his eight-day trip across the Gulf coast in October. Click for more.
11/8: Day 7: Out of oysters
California photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered these insights on Day Seven of their Eight Days in the Gulf, which was spent in and around Venice and Port Sulphur, La. Click for more.
11/7, Day 6: Company town
Calif. photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered these insights on Day Six, Oct. 23 of the Eight Days in the Gulf tour around Venice, La., a major fishing village where they got differing stories about the oil disaster. Click for more.
11/6, Day 5: Praying
California photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered insights about New Orleans about Day Five, Oct. 22, of their Eight Days in the Gulf. Click for more.
11/4, Day 3: Crabbing
Take a look at Day Three of Eight Days in the Gulf by photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell. Today: the La. and Miss. coasts. Click for more.
10/30: Oiled grass
If you want to know how nasty the Gulf oil disaster was to the Louisiana marsh, just look at this close-up shot taken by photographer Drew Wheelan on Sept. 5, 2010. It shows non-degrated oiled marsh gras from Bay Jimmy, Barataria Bay, Louisiana.
10/25: Dead dolphin
Photographer Drew Wheelan snapped the image of this dead dolphin on Raccoon Island in Louisiana on Sept. 5. The animal originally was found and reported on Sept. 28, he noted, and not sampled to test for oil spill contamination.
10/23: Kreepin’
Photographer Jason Griffith found this scene outside the Southern Sting tattoo parlor in Larose, La., on July 29, 2010.
10/22: Decontamination
Louisiana photographer Jason Griffith snapped this image in August of a “jack-up” boat being used to decontaminate oiled boats northeast of Barataria Bay, La.
10/20: Dead grass
Photographer and water scientist Jason Griffith of Baton Rouge, La., snapped this image of dead marsh grass Oct. 14 on the south side of the S.W. Pass near Burwood, La. Click for more.
10/14: Dead marsh
Here’s another aerial view of some of the dead marsh on a berm along Louisiana’s coast. Click for more.
10/13: Louisiana berm
Here’s an aerial view of some of the berm along Louisiana’s coast. Click to see more.
10/11: Searching
GRAND ISLE, La.- Jessica Odell, a natural resource advisor during the Deepwater Horizon response, scans the beach for the Piping Plover, Oct. 10, 2010. Click for more.
10/10: Sand removal
GRAND ISLE, La. — Clean up crews with the Deepwater Horizon response remove oiled sand from a beach on Grand Terre 1, Oct. 10, 2010. Click for more.
10/8: Decontamination
Contractors with the Deepwater Horizon response cleaned oil from a vessel at the decontamination facility in Lafitte, La., on Oct. 6, 2010. Click for more.
10/5: Quiet beauty
Photographer Terri Garland says this image of empty crab crates on a dock at Point la Hache, La., captured her eye this summer because of its quiet beauty — especially in the midst of all of the mess going on with the Gulf oil disaster. Click for more.
10/4: Questions
Photographer Terri Garland captured this woman asking pointed questions of Kenneth Feinberg, government-appointed administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund, during a July 15 meeting at Port Sulphur Catholic Church in Louisiana. Click to learn more.l
10/3: Capt. Collins
Photographer Terri Garland captured this image in the summer of veteran Louisiana oysterman Wilbert Collins on a dock in Golden Meadows. Click for more.
10/2: Tattoo artist
Tattoo artist Bobby Pitre of Larose, La., is portrayed by photographer Terri Garland as he paints a satiric portrait of now-deposed BP CEO Tony Hayward. Click to learn more.
9/26: I want my life back
Here’s a photo and testimonial of New Orleans chef Chris DeBarr by photographer Terri Garland. Click to learn more about Garland’s series.
9/25: Another look
GRAND ISLE, La. — Here’s another look at the updated look of the yard full of crosses marked with wildlife that died and activities that suffered after the Gulf oil tragedy. Click to see more.
9/24: Assessing
Two Coast Guard officers toured beach clean-up operations Sept. 17 near Grand Isle, La. Click to learn more.