Who will clean this mess up?
* Crude still leaking into Gulf, fouling Louisiana marshes
BLIND BAY, La, May 21 (Reuters) - Energy giant BP, accused by the U.S. government of failing to share information in a timely fashion about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, was forging ahead on Friday with efforts to contain the gushing crude.
The pressure to act is huge. TV images of oil sloshing into Louisiana's marshes has underscored the gravity of the situation and raised public concern about the catastrophe, keeping it high up on the political agenda in Washington.
"It's depressing for sure. This is what we were hoping wouldn't happen," said Randy Lanctot, executive director of the Louisiana Wildlife Federation.
Deep red oil coated miles of coastline along the southern tip of the Mississippi River delta, the harbinger of what many in Louisiana fear will be a much more devastating inundation.
In places, a thick oily sludge had washed up into coastal inlets where it nestled amid the marsh grass while elsewhere a rainbow sheen of oil floated off the coast suggesting more oil would soon wash onto the low-lying islands.
