BP goes to D.C. to explain oil spill

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  The oil damaged shoreline in the Northern reaches of Barataria Bay is seen amidst work boats in oil polluted waters Thursday. This was a day of judgment in Washington, D.C. for the oil company at the center of the Gulf calamity.
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  Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., holds an Associated Press photo taken a couple of weeks ago by Charlie Riedel, of an oil covered pelican, the state bird of Louisiana. This is how he began his questioning of BP CEO Tony Hayward, on Capitol Hill.
  AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari
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  Back at the scene of the spill, similar pictures are still being taken. Here, National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski shows his glove covered in oil in Bay Jimmy, near Myrtle Grove, La.
  AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
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  BP CEO Tony Hayward looks over documents while testifying before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill. He said "I am so devastated with this accident," "deeply sorry" and "so distraught."
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  Yet Hayward disclaimed knowledge of any of the myriad problems on and under the Deepwater Horizon rig before the deadly explosion. "With respect, sir, we drill hundreds of wells a year around the world." As he was speaking Thursday, oil was continuing to move through Bay Jimmy.
  AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
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  Actor Kevin Costner, right, and his daughter Annie Costner, listen as Hayward testifies. Costner owns of Ocean Therapy Solutions and wants the industry to buy his cleanup machines to have on hand for immediate use in spills.
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  A cluster of tar balls floats on the gulf's surface Wednesday, June 16, 2010 next to the Okaloosa Island Fishing Pier.
  AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily News, Nick Tomecek
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  Passers-by walk past a BP gas station in Newton, Mass., Thursday, June 17, 2010. People have been suggesting wide-scale boycotts of BP service stations, but experts warn that will do more harm to local owners rather than BP.
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  In Louisiana, a worker on a staging barge walks past piles of absorbent boom to be used to collect oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill
  AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
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  BP CEO Tony Hayward is sworn in on Capitol Hill. He spoke to the Energy and Environment subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, but mainly had to sit there as lawmakers hammered him with their speeches.
  AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari
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  Oil cleanup workers use machines to clean the beach west of Gulf Shores, Ala., Wednesday, June 16, 2010. The spill has contaminated almost 200 km of U.S. coastline, threatened wildlife, tourism and fishing operations, and called a halt to oil industry jobs.
  AP Photo/Press-Register, Mike Kittrell
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  Protester Diane Wilson disrupted the hearing and was forcibly removed from the room by Capitol police. Her hands stained black, she shouted to Hayward: "You need to be charged with a crime."
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  Hayward, wearing red tie, leaves the Rayburn House Office Building following his testimony. As of Thursday morning, the BP well had sent between 66 million to 120 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, based on government figures.
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