The government's response will include the Defence Department and Obama has dispatched three Cabinet officials to the region and has called the governors of the five Gulf Coast states to coordinate the cleanup efforts.
The oil company BP PLC will ultimately pay the cost of the cleanup. BP operated the offshore rig that exploded and sank last week.
The oil drilling underwater is leaking massive amounts of oil into the gulf coast. Its unknown when the drilling will be capped, but the environmental damages are already estimated to be catastrophic.
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