BP oil spill: the growing onslaught of public anger

Accusatory messages and arrows on the beach at Dauphin Island, Alabama highlight tar balls from coagulated oil washed ashore Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk Grave markers in a front garden in Grand Isle, Louisiana articulate some of the wildlife and holiday activities lost to the pollution, the worst environmental disaster in US history Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Saul Loeb/guardian.co.uk One of many signs appearing on Grand Isle chastising BP for the oil that continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico two months after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig Photograph: Keystone/ZUMA/Rex Features Photograph: Keystone/ZUMA/guardian.co.uk Tonia Lipscomb of Rockford, Alabama sits and cries as oil continues to stain a local beach Photograph: STR/Reuters Photograph: STR/guardian.co.uk Eli Torres of Orange Beach, Alabama protests with his mother under the Perdido Pass bridge in Orange Beach, Alabama Photograph: STR/Reuters Photograph: STR/guardian.co.uk Protesters shout slogans against BP during a demonstration in front of the BP Amoco government affairs office in Washington DC Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Jewel Samad/guardian.co.uk Reinterpretations of BP's icon and colours make for powerful protests as anger spreads against everything the company stands for. This one took place outside a Berkeley college campus building that is being funded by the oil giant Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Photograph: Justin Sullivan/guardian.co.uk With protesters behind him, BP America chairman and president Lamar McKay (centre) waits to testify before the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images Photograph: Win McNamee/guardian.co.uk A protester outside BP's Chicago offices Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images Photograph: Scott Olson/guardian.co.uk A stark sign of public regard for BP Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images Photograph: Win McNamee/guardian.co.uk Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink anti-war group, leads a demonstration outside the company's US headquarters in Houston, Texas Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Photograph: Bloomberg/guardian.co.uk Drenched in water and paint to resemble oil a protester takes her demonstration to a BP petrol station in New York. Huge financial penalties and a slump in share price are hitting the company in the pocket Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP Photograph: Mary Altaffer/guardian.co.uk A rally gathers in New Orleans Photograph: Julie Dermansky/Corbis Photograph: Julie Dermansky/guardian.co.uk Doorstep protests continue as the US president, Barack Obama, makes his fourth visit to the Gulf Coast since the explosion and rupture of oil pipes on April 20 unleashed America's worst environmental disaster Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk Protesters march along Florida's Pensacola Beach where gobs of congealed oil have come ashore as the poluttion spreads through the Gilf Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Photograph: Joe Raedle/guardian.co.uk Commercial fisher Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Texas makes a dramatic protest by pouring a jar of an oily substance over herself at a hearing of the Senate energy and natural resources committee into the oil spill Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/guardian.co.uk A protest sign takes a bizarrely patriotic turn Photograph: Karin Zeitvogel/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Karin Zeitvogel/guardian.co.uk Frustration with the Obama government is as strong as approbation of BP. The latest estimates – revised upwards again – suggest that 1.7 million gallons of oil are pouring into the gulf from the ruptured well every day Photograph: Cheryl Gerber/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Cheryl Gerber/guardian.co.uk The damage to wildlife and the ecosystem is incalcuable and may not be fully known for many years Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/guardian.co.uk Cheryl King and other demonstrators take their protests to a highway outside Gulf Shores, Alabama Photograph: Sean Gardner/Reuters Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk A hand-painted sign with characters from Spongebob Squarepants covered in oil sits by the road in Grand Isle, Louisiana Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Saul Loeb/guardian.co.uk Angry slogans outside a BP petrol station in Los Angeles Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/guardian.co.uk