During a visit to New Orleans in early June, Kevin Clarke and Kerry Weber met with local fishermen and visited area beaches to learn firsthand the effects of the British Petrolium oil spill. Here is a selection of their coverage.

“The Fisherman on the Shore,” Kerry Weber

“On Grand Terre, The Oil Makes Landfall,” Kevin Clarke

 

This article appears in June 7 2010.

Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).

Kerry Weber joined the staff of America in October 2009. Her writing and multimedia work have since earned several awards from the Catholic Press Association, and in 2013 she reported from Rwanda as a recipient of Catholic Relief Services' Egan Journalism Fellowship. Kerry is the author of Mercy in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, and Keep Your Day Job (Loyola Press) and Keeping the Faith: Prayers for College Students (Twenty-Third Publications). A graduate of Providence College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she has previously worked as an editor for Catholic Digest, a local reporter, a diocesan television producer, and as a special-education teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.