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Cain Burdeau

FILE - In this April 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. Deep-water drilling is set to resume near the site of the catastrophic BP PLC well blowout that killed 11 workers and caused the nation's largest offshore oil spill five years ago off the coast of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Plan OK’d to drill into BP’s ill-fated Macondo reservoir

Cain Burdeau

Ranchers cope with herd losses from Isaac’s floods

Cain Burdeau

Isaac steers clear of direct blow on New Orleans

Cain Burdeau

People gather near crosses -- 11 for the workers who died in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and one for the Gulf of Mexico, center -- during a vigil to mark the first anniversary of the BP PLC oil spill on a beach in Grand Isle, La., Wednesday, April 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (AP)

BP sues partners as Gulf marks year since spill

Cain Burdeau, Harry R. Weber

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2010 file photo, the Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, is seen in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico with none of the cement plugging normally required to help keep unused wells from leaking, threatening the same waters fouled by last year's BP oil spill, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Gulf oil disaster, one year later

Cain Burdeau, Harry R. Weber

La. shrimpers worry about prices for new season

KEVIN McGILL, Cain Burdeau

Scientists: Gulf can recover

Cain Burdeau, Seth Borenstein

Oil’s fingers reach into Louisiana’s inland waters

Cain Burdeau

Lab tests confirm underwater plumes of Gulf oil

Cain Burdeau

Expedition to contain Gulf oil leak begins

Cain Burdeau, Harry R. Weber

Oil reaches shore as Coast Guard defends response

Cain Burdeau

La. gov declares emergency over Gulf oil spill

Cain Burdeau

In this aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's tip, oil is seen near the site last week's collapse and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig Wednesday, April 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (AP)

Worsening gulf spill may need military

Cain Burdeau

Army Corps critic sues La. university over firing

Cain Burdeau