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One year after the Gulf oil disaster: real progress made?
Posted: 04.20.2011 at 6:57 AM
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In this photo combo, oil stained pelicans and baby pelicans are seen on May 23, 2010, left, on Cat Island, just inside the the coast of Lousiana. In the second photo, taken at the same spot on April 8, 2011, shows the shoreline heavily eroded, and the lush thickets of mangrove trees mostly dead or dying.  / AP photo
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The president said significant progress has been made since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, but the work isn't done.

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