A firefighter attempt to put out a fire that started while workers

A firefighter attempt to put out a fire that started while workers were dismantling the remains of a storage facility destroyed by a oil pipeline explosion

A view of the Pemex oil complex 'Cantarell' in the Gulf of Mexico

A view of the Pemex oil complex 'Cantarell' in the Gulf of Mexico

Brown Pelicans are seen at the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station

Brown Pelicans are seen at the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station as the center prepares to transfer the birds after they were rehabilitated from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 

A Canada goose covered in oil attempts to fly out of the Kalamazoo River

A Canada goose covered in oil attempts to fly out of the Kalamazoo River in Marshall

Activists covered in food coloring made

Activists covered in food coloring made to look like oil protest BP's Gulf oil spill in Mexico City 

Oily polluted water at the site of the oil pipline explosion at the port in Dalian

Oily polluted water at the site of the oil pipline explosion at the port in Dalian

Fire boats battle the Deepwater Horizon blaze.

Fire boats battle the Deepwater Horizon blaze.

Two workers, covered head-to-toe in oil after a massive explosion at a refinery

 workers were caught in just some of the 1,500 tons of crude





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Oil is burned off the surface of the water

Oil is burned off the surface of the water near the source of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

A Greenpeace activist, with her body covered in fake oil

"Stop Deep Sea Drilling" Greenpeace
A Greenpeace activist, with her body covered in fake oil, takes part in a protest outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels

oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico                                                                                                    Getty Images

Smoke and flames billow from Indian Oil Corp's fuel depot

Smoke and flames billow from Indian Oil Corp's fuel depot as a body of a victim lies in Sitapura industrial area in the outskirts of Jaipur, October 30, 2009.

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