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In this image released by the White House, President Obama receives a briefing in the Situation Room of the White House on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Taking part in the meeting are, clockwise from top; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, U.S. Cost Guard Rear Adm. Peter Neffenger, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. (AP Photo/Pete Souza)
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Tighe Barry (right) of Los Angeles and Zaccai Free rally Wednesday outside the Department of Agriculture in support of Mrs. Sherrod, demanding that she be reinstated.
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Chinese firefighters work to clean up the oil spill near the coast of Dalian, China, on Tuesday. Crude oil began pouring into the Yellow Sea after a pipeline exploded last week, and officials say the spill poses a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, look through binoculars toward North Korea during a visit to observation post Ouellette at the Demilitarized Zone in Panmunjon, South Korea, on July 21, 2010. The DMZ is a strip of land that divides North and South Korea at the 38th parallel. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, pool)
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday, July 21, 2010, that the Agriculture Department will reconsider its decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee, Shirley Sherrod, on Tuesday July 20, over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, following new evidence that her remarks were misconstrued. (AP Photo/Adam Rountree, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the British Embassy in Washington on Tuesday. "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a catastrophe for the environment, for the fishing industry, for tourism. I've been absolutely clear about that," Mr. Cameron said.
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FILE - In this March 29, 2011 photo, a billboard promoting a Katy Perry and Kanye West video "E.T." is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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FILE - In this July 15, 2009 file photo, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, center, chats with an unidentified Chinese officer as he looks at a turbine inside the China Resources Golden Concord-Co-generation Plant at the Beijing Development Area in Beijing. China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, July 20, 2010. China immediately questioned the calculation. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2010 publicity image released by CNN, CNN's Anderson Cooper, right, inspects the oil spill during a tour with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, background left, of the contaminated areas in Blind Bay, La. (AP Photo/CNN, Shaul Schwarz)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, a firefighter who was submerged in thick oil during an attempt to fix an underwater pump is brought ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this photo released by Greenpeace, oil covered the hand of a firefighter who was overwhelmed by the thick oil spill while attempting to fix an underwater pump is seen after he is pulled ashore by his colleagues in Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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This photo released by Greenpeace shows oil washed ashore near the port of Dalian, China, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea off a busy northeastern port after a pipeline exploded late last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire. The government says the slick has spread across a 70-square-mile stretch of ocean. (AP Photo/Jiang He, Greenpeace)
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In this Dec. 3, 2009, file photo, workers load coal into a truck outside a coal mine in Dadong, Shanxi province, China. China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, July 20, 2010. China immediately questioned the calculation. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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Associated Press BEARING DOWN: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed the opponent of fellow "grizzly mama" Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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Associated Press Crews work Monday on pipe problem in Atlantic City, N.J., that left Boardwalk casinos without air conditioning for three days. Pepco Energy Services, which owns the plant where the mishap occurred, said temporary cooling trucks were operating at full capacity.
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This is an undated handout photo issued Monday July 19, 2010 by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) of a Horton Plains slender loris, sitting on a forest branch in a mountain forest in central Sri Lanka. Researchers say they photographed the rare primate thought to have been extinct for more than 60 years in a forest in central Sri Lanka. The Zoological Society of London said in in a statement on Monday that a Horton Plains slender loris with wide eyes and short limbs has been caught on camera by ZSL and Sri Lankan researchers after they surveyed forest patches for more than 200 hours, looking for signs of the primate. (AP Photo/Zoological Society of London/Ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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In this photo taken Sunday, July 18, 2010, Chinese workers scoop up oil from a spill in the sea near Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. Efforts were under way to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions at a northeastern Chinese port sent greasy black plumes into the ocean, state media reported Sunday. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken Sunday, July 18, 2010, a Chinese worker tries to soak up oil from a spill in the sea near Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. Efforts were under way to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions at a northeastern Chinese port sent greasy black plumes into the ocean, state media reported Sunday. (AP Photo)
