Images from Grand Isle, Louisiana, which was heavily impacted by the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill. Images include a number of protest signs erected by angry residents.

Images of Magnolia Springs Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jamie Hinton, who led the small Alabama town of Magnolia Springs in a fight to protect the area from encroaching oil by blocking the entrance to Weeks Bay with barges and layers of containment boom following the Deepwater Horizon explosion and BP oil spill. For the story, please see: http://www.carmenksisson.com/archives/113

Pictures of Bayou La Batre, Ala. as shrimpers, fishermen, and residents struggle to cope with the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and its effect on the local seafood industry.

Mississippi had been largely spared from the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion April 20, 2010, but winds from Hurricane Alex began pushing oil ashore earlier this week, affecting beaches from Biloxi to Pass Christian.

President Barack Obama held a press conference at the Theodore Staging Area for oil spill cleanup June 14, 2010 in Theodore, Alabama. The trip, which included visits to Gulfport, Miss. and Pensacola, Fla., marked Obama's third trip to the Gulf Coast since the Deepwater Horizon explosion April 20, 2010.

Louisiana residents held a Community Crisis prayer service for the BP oil spill May 26, 2010 at First Baptist Church in Chalmette, La. Nearly 100 coastal residents attended the service to pray for protection, comfort, guidance, and mercy as BP continued to battle the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

As the U.S. Army National Guard erected barriers to protect Dauphin Island, Alabama from globs of oil steadily spreading from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and the BP oil spill April 20, 2009, reports rolled in of tar balls sighted on the west end near the public beach, providing both curiosity and concern for local residents.