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FILE - In this June 15, 2010 file photo, a member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff wearing a glove reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La. Over BP’s objections, a federal appeals court on Friday Jan. 10, 2014, upheld a judge's approval of the company’s multibillion-dollar settlement with lawyers for businesses and residents who claim the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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City officials help direct traffic through a water distribution site set up at the South Charleston Recreation Center in South Charleston, W.Va., Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, after at least 100,000 customers in nine West Virginia counties were told not to drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using their tap water because of a chemical spill into the Elk River in Charleston, with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declaring a state of emergency Thursday for all those areas. The site opened before 9 a.m. with bottled water and a tanker truck, but was expected to run out of water about 90 minutes later. (AP Photo/The Daily Mail, Marcus Constantino)
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David Fletcher, center, a member of the Belle Fire Department, took off a day of work at his accounting job for the state so he could help distribute water at Riverside High School in Charleston, W.Va., after a chemical spill in the Elk River in Charleston shut down much of the city and surrounding counties, Friday Jan 10, 2014. He said that earlier he dropped off some water for some of his elderly neighbors. (AP Photo/Charleston Daily Mail, Craig Cunningham)
