VENICE, La. (Reuters) - Winds pushed a huge oil slick towards the U.S. Gulf shoreline on Sunday as President Barack Obama prepared to visit the area to show his administration was addressing what could become a major environmental disaster.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts showed the spreading spill, gushing unchecked from a blown-out undersea oil well, moving inexorably towards the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts, driven by winds from the south,
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