BP suspended from new US gov’t contracts
Gulf Oil Spill
Credit: AP
Workers head to the beach to clean up oil residue in Grand Isle, La., Sunday, May 30, 2010. Six weeks after the catastrophe began, oil giant BP PLC is still casting about for at least a temporary fix to the spewing well underneath the Gulf of Mexico that's fouling beaches, wildlife and marshland. A relief well that's currently being drilled _ which is supposed to be a better long-term solution _ won't be done for at least two months. That would be in the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season, which begins Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
