Oily waves come ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Heavy seas from Tropical Storm Alex helped push more oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster towards the Florida and Alabama coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
An unidentified girl sits on what is left of the pristine white sand, some 50 yards from the surf in Orange Beach, Alabama, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Heavy seas from Tropical Storm Alex helped push more oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster towards the Florida and Alabama coasts. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Ed and Lucy Waltz of Leroy, Illinois, walk to the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Monday, June 7, 2010. Officials have posted no swimming signs at the Alabama public beaches advising swimmers not to go in the water because of the presence of oil and oil-related chemicals. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
In this June 4, 2010 photo, the feet of Rebecca Thomasson, of Knoxville, Tennessee, are covered in oil after walking along the beach as oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill washes ashore in Gulf Shores, Alabama. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)
In this June 4, 2010 photo, clumps of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill wash up on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Oil from the spill is washing up on beaches in Alabama and Florida. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)
Tourists watch as workers clean oil from the sand along a 700-yard long strip of oil that washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Friday, June 4, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Steve Gardner, of Mobile, scrapes oil from the sand along a 700-yard long strip of oil that washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Friday, June 4, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has started washing ashore on the Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
A man walks past oil residue on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has started washing ashore on the Alabama and Florida coast beaches. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
A seagull flies along the Alabama Gulf Coast at sunrise as Tropical Storm Ida makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
