Latest news

• Watch-and-wait game for Gulf Coast
• Coast Guard admiral: Oil spill size unknown
• Expert: 'Huge underwater cloud of oil'
• The latest updates and perspectives on This Just In
• Oil spill from the air
• Video shows oil burn in Gulf
• Track the oil spill's path
• Stopping Gulf Coast oil leak could take weeks
• Boats prepping for impending oil
• Obama calls for review of oil rig incident
• Coastal towns fear approaching oil
• Florida keeps eye on creeping oil slick

Response

See cleanup methods, largest spills in history

• Gulf Coast volunteers hurry up and wait
• Volunteers recruited to help in oil spill threat

Reaction

• Saving a business from oil
• Greed, negligence behind BP oil spill
• Oil slick hinders boat tour business
• Optimistic for wedding despite oil spill impact
• Oil rig survivor's wife speaks
• Voices from the Gulf
• Gulf fishermen fear livelihood
• RFK Jr.: We need oil, we need wetlands
• Opinion: Birds' decline eventually mirrors our own
• Fishermen angry, want to help
• iReporters react to Gulf oil spill
• Fisherman to BP: Locals should clean oil

Political impact

Oil spill could sap Obama's offshore drilling plans

• Oil slick awaits New Orleans' new mayor
• Fallout for Obama? | Politics of the oil spill

Environmental effects

Wildlife threatened by Gulf oil spill

• Oil spill changes everything
• Video shows oil-covered bird WWL

Economic costs

Oil wreaks havoc on livelihoods before it arrives

• Oil spill could cost BP $3 billion or more  CNNMoney
• Q&A: BP's role in the oil spill

Oil rig explosion

New accounts of explosion: 'Blown out of bed'

• April 21: At least 11 missing after oil rig blast
• April 23: 'Expectation of survivors has passed'

From CNN affiliates

• St. Bernard suggestions for cleanup effort WDSU
• DHH, DEQ, EPA monitoring air quality WDSU
• Plaquemines parish braces for oil impact WDSU
• Coast Guard: Southwest pass open WDSU
• Oil spill impacts Florida schools WPEC
• Louisiana ports to remain open WVUE
• Aquarium preps to help oil-soaked wildlife WGNO
• Workers put out oil dams WALA
• Wife: 'Rig survivor not the same' KHOU
• Oil slick threatens fisheries WPLG

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