Tarballs found on beach at Panama City, Florida

In Florida, the Bay County Emergency Operations Center confirmed that tar balls had washed onto the beach at Panama City, a popular tourist destination.

Residents of the U.S. Gulf Coast battled to save their beaches as oil washed ashore at Florida’s Panama City, the latest casualty of BP’s ruptured deep-sea well.

The spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest in U.S. history, and the White House criticized BP CEO Tony Hayward for taking time off from dealing with its consequences to watch a yacht race on Saturday off the south coast of Britain. [ID:nN19148130]

To try to minimize the leak’s environmental impact, the British energy giant is containing some of the oil as it gushes from a well on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

It restarted its effort to siphon oil spewing from the well after one system was shut down for 10 hours to fix a problem with its fire-prevention equipment and to let a storm pass.

The system has been “building up to stable rates since” it was restarted, BP said in a statement. A second system is also running, though oil continues to escape into the sea.

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