The oil is coming ashore, seeping into the Louisiana marshes and washing up on Alabama beaches. Daily overflights show an oily sheen stretching over several hundred miles of the Gulf of Mexico-rainbow sheen, intermittent sheen, windows of sheen. In places it clots into mousse, orange and brown. Underwater cameras give a live feed from the source, a mile below the surface: oil gushing up from the seabed in a sinuous, ceaseless heave.
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