Sunday morning, the first oily tar balls washed ashore in Mississippi; by Sunday afternoon a 23-person crew began to clean up the mess along the shores of Pascagoula, Mississippi.
"It has hit our shores," Pascagoula Mayor Robbie Maxwell said.
"This is what we've been expecting. We had hoped and prayed we would somehow miss this, but it's hit us now," Maxwell said. "The good news is that for the last five or six weeks, we've been preparing to attack it when it hit our shores, and that's exactly what we've done."
"Now that we have it on our shores, every day it'll have to be attacked again," the mayor said.
Mississippi officials said the tar balls appeared in four separate locations Sunday, but no beaches were closed.
See the video below to see the tar balls that have washed ashore.
Residents along the Gulf coast area are concerned about hurricane season and seeing the oil that has spilled in the Gulf of Mexico come ashore in flood waters. The oil would be difficult to clean off the land and buildings, etc.
Over the weekend a tropical storm formed in the Caribbean and is currently projected toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Hurricane Alex is expected to hit land by early Thursday. The storm may halt operations in the Gulf of Mexico for up to two weeks. For more on that story, click here.
Thursday, a New Orleans judge is expected to rule if the government ban on deepwater drilling will continue in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s administration asked Judge Martin Feldman to delay his decision on lifting the ban until an appeals court can get to the case later this summer. The judge denied that request. For more on that story, click here.
A lawsuit was filed from a group of companies that state the government has no evidence that the existing operations pose a threat to the Gulf of Mexico, and asked that the ban be removed. The companies provide boats and equipment to the drilling industry. For more on that story, click here.
To see incredible photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, click here.
To see photos taken recently of the oil spill that hit the Louisiana coastline and the wildlife it has affected, click here.
Sunday, a BP document was released by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts that gave the worst case scenario of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; the report stated that an estimated 100,000 barrels (or 4.2 million gallons) could leak into the ocean per day. The report was created after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and was submitted in May. For more on that story, click here.
BP shareholder class action lawsuit was filed last week in the Eastern District of Louisiana and the organizers of the suit hope to bring angry people all over the world together. The case alleges that BP was not conducting a safe operation in oil drilling, but misled the public by acting as though they were. For more information on that story, click here.
Actor Kevin Costner has invested about $26 million into his Ocean Therapy Solutions machine, and six of the machines were sent to the Gulf for testing. BP has ordered 32 more machines that recycle water to separate the oil. For more information on this story, click here.
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Source: CNN
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