But BP says it will pay cleanup costs and all "legitimate claims" for losses and damages from the spill.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

The government could also use violations of other federal laws such as the Clean Water Act to collect money for the spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

More than eighty thousand barrels of crude oil from the spill severely damaged over sixty kilometers of coastline.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

President Obama says crews have made progress in cleaning up the spill, but the job is not done.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

But they say finding injured birds in the huge spill and sending out boats to rescue them will be a difficult job.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

President Obama also spoke about the difficult time people in the Gulf area were going through as a result of the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

President Obama gave his first speech from the Oval Office Tuesday night to discuss the oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But this week, Mr.Obama could report apparent success in a different sort of battle -- against the largest accidental oil spill ever at sea.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Attention turned to Washington this week over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

American officials have suspended all fishing in parts of the Gulf of Mexico for at least ten days because of the huge oil spill.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

President Obama on Thursday ordered federal officials to intensify efforts to deal with the huge spill.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The spill comes shortly before the start of the fishing season for crab, shrimp and oysters.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Natural micro-organisms in the water helped eat the oil and clean up the spill.

VOA: special.2011.04.23

The first was a huge oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara,California.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

"Ironically it would actually cross the Yellowstone River where the spill just happened."

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Now,BP faces growing political pressure over the worst oil spill in American history.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

Tony Hayward apologized for the spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

"This is a spill of national significance."

VOA: special.2010.05.01

That could happen later this month. The government now thinks close to five million barrels of oil leaked into the gulf between April and the middle of July, when the spill was contained.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

"I have always been more concerned about the invisible of the spill than the visible portions of the spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

After the spill, the president asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reform the government agency that oversees oil drilling.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Dudley grew up partly in the southern U.S.state of Mississippi, which has been heavily affected by the oil spill.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

Samples have been sent to a lab for analysis to see if there is any link to the Gulf oil spill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Although the president has visited the Gulf coast three times since the spill began, he is getting poor grades.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10