Weather will prevent skimming, burning for days, official says Mark Ralston / AFP - Getty Images A Louisiana Heron flies above the fragile wetlands near the town of Venice, La., on Thursday. |
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 8:58 a.m. ET April 30, 2010
MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER - No new offshore drilling will be authorized until authorities learn what caused the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, an aide to President Barack Obama said Friday as oil oozed ashore in Louisiana.
Senior adviser David Axelrod also defended the administration's response to the April 20 accident in the Gulf of Mexico, saying "we had the Coast Guard in almost immediately."
He deflected comparisons with the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, telling ABC's "Good Morning America" that such speculation "is always the case in Washington whenever something like this happens."
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