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President Obama talks about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday, June 14, 2010, at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Gulfport, Miss. At the far end of the table are (from left) Carol M. Browner, White House climate and energy adviser; U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander; Mr. Obama; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour; Mr. Barbour's wife, Marsha; and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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An elderly survivor holds a poster of Warren Anderson, the head of Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the gas leak, as she waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, on June 7, 2010. The court convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that left an estimated 15,000 people dead more than a quarter century ago in the world's worst industrial disaster. (Associated Press)
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Mother Teresa comforts a young victim of the Bhopal, India, gas-leak disaster on Dec. 11, 1984. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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At a Washington press conference Tuesday, former Beatle Paul McCartney declined to opine on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "I'm not a politician," he noted.
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From left, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Ignacia Moreno, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division Tony West and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Don Burkhalter announce that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
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Christopher Pulaski with the National Wildlife Federation examines oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. (AP)
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Associated Press photographs Workers shovel oil Monday from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., as the finger pointing continues over the continuing spillage.
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Coast Guard chief Adm. Thad W. Allen said he is "satisfied" with the coordination that's taking place between the government and BP.
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In this Dec. 11, 2008, file photo, Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Commission Chair, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, left, listens as Vice Chair, former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. President Barack Obama announced Saturday, May 22, 2010, that Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
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A Lebanese army helicopter flies past the USS Ramage on Tuesday as search efforts continue following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane into the sea off Beirut. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Rescue worker searches area around wreckage of a commercial helicopter that crashed Thursday night, July 23, 2009, on Interstate 70 in western Maryland. Officials said four people in the helicopter were killed. (AP Photo/Hagerstown Herald-Mail, Kevin G. Gilbert)
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** FILE ** A Staten Island ferry docks at the Manhattan terminal in New York on Sunday, May 9, 2010. The Staten Island ferry that malfunctioned and smashed into a pier, tossing passengers to the deck, has been idled while federal and local officials try to figure out what went wrong. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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** FILE ** A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 arrives at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore., on Monday, July 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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US Airways planes are seen at Reagan National Airport near Washington in December 2009. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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The first of three KLM passenger planes headed toward New York takes off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday April 19, 2010. European transport officials have carved up the sky, creating three zones to break the flight deadlock caused by a cloud of volcanic ash flowing from Iceland over Europe. France said Monday that European countries can resume airline traffic in designated "caution zones" where the threat of ash is considered less dangerous. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Deborah A.P. Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, presides over a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, to discuss the Feb. 12, 2009, crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo-Niagara International Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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**FILE** A U.S. Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter flies on a mission over Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
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** FILE ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)
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NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersman updates the media during a press conference in Hoboken, N.J., Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. The plane that collided with a helicopter and crashed in the Hudson River near Hoboken is still under water. Divers hope to recover the plane on Monday, but their first priority is to recover the bodies of two remaining victims of the air collision that killed nine people, a chief investigator said. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
