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President Barack Obama is greeted by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, right, as he arrives at Louis Armstrong International New Orleans Airport en route to the Gulf Coast region where he will visit damage caused by the BP oil well spill, Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama is greeted by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as he arrives at Louis Armstrong International New Orleans Airport en route to the Gulf Coast region, where he will visit damage caused by the BP oil well spill Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Michael DeFonde is amused Tuesday at a BP gas station in Woodbridge by the size of his Powerball winnings as he looks at a check held by Virginia Lottery spokesman John Hagerty. Mr. DeFonde says he always buys his tickets and gas at the BP, located on Maple Dale Avenue. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is joined at a news conference in New Orleans about the BP oil spill settlement by Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West (far left) and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer (second from right). BP agreed to plead guilty to felony manslaughter, environmental crimes and obstruction of Congress and to pay $4 billion in fines and penalties. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill floats on the water with clouds reflected in the sheen on Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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In this file photo made June 3, 2010, a brown pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's point man on the disaster, said Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, BP's well "is effectively dead." A permanent cement plug sealed BP's well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico, five agonizing months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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FILE - In this April 21, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. The gargantuan legal bill for the 2010 catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is coming due for BP as a federal trial opens Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 to determine the company’s liability for the blowout of its Macondo well. On the cusp of trial, phalanxes of lawyers, company officials and state officials spent the final hours in high-stakes settlement talks that law experts believed could still yield a deal right before the courtroom doors open Monday morning. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, File)