White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, right, shows a chart as NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco discusses the BP oil spill at the White House.
The “vast majority” of crude from BP's damaged Gulf of Mexico well is gone and the rest is being broken down by waves and bacteria, reducing the threat of further pollution from the largest maritime oil spill, White House energy adviser Carol Browner said.
Fishermen contracted to help collect oiled boom go about their work in Barataria Bay, La.
In this image from video, oil flows out of the top of the transition spool, which was placed into the gushing wellhead and will house the new containment cap.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former U.S. senator Bob Graham, a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, meet with officials and representatives from the Panhandle at the Santa Rosa Island Authority on Pensacola Beach in Pensacola Fla. The commission visited affected coastal communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida during the weekend.
From left to right, Gina Durell, Island Durell and Linda Harrison of Pensacola, Fla., watch as crews clean up oil washed ashore on Pensacola Beach.