A sign reading “Cannot fish or swim, BP how the hell are we supposed to feed our kids now?” in the tiny community of Grand Isle on the Louisiana gulf coast near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Residents and businesses are reeling from the effects of the oil spill. The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning, leaking record amounts of crude oil from the broken pipeline into the sea.

