The Big Mop-Up

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  Booms surround Queen Bess Island as clean up operations from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continue off the coast of Louisiana, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Distortion caused by fisheye lens on the camera.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  A shrimp boat pulls an oily boom as clean up operations from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill continue in Barataria Bay, where wildlife has been hit hard by the leaking crude.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. The bay has been hit by a second wave of oil, much heavier than the one that hit two weeks ago.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  A bulldozer moves sand to construct a berm on East Grand Terre Island, La. Louisiana has built a sand-berm to block oil from the fragile marshland on Queen Bess Island, and BP has agreed to fund the first six stages of the project.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  Workers look for oil-impacted wildlife on East Grand Terre Island, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. The island is a 1,575 acre site with marshes and dunes, and was undergoing restoration before the spill happened.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  A helicopter flies over livestock with sand bags. Helicopters are patrolling the islands and bays of Louisiana to assess the state of wildlife and the movement of oil.
  AP Photo/Eric Gay

  

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  A worker walks past a fountain of sand from a dredge as it is pumped onto East Grand Terre Island to provide a barrier against the oil spill
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  Sand from a dredge is pumped to provide a barrier on East Grand Terre Island. Louisiana is hoping to close off gaps in the state's marshy periphery.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  Oil-absorbent booms are seen at Queen Bess Island. The island is one of three sites where endangered brown pelicans were reintroduced after pesticides wiped them out in the 1960s.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  Terns find new safety perched on a boom used to absorb oil.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marsh grass along Barataria Bay.
  AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

  

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  This image from video shows the oil leak at the site of the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The cap over the wellhead is collecting more gushing crude day by day, but authorities are still trying to pinpoint how much oil is escaping, where it's going and what harm it will cause.
  AP Photo/BP PLC

  

 

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