Belle Chase
BELLE CHASE, La. - From a seaplane 1,000 feet above Louisiana's coastal wetlands, the places hit hardest by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are easy to spot - dark slashes marring a vast expanse of marshes and bayous.

BELLE CHASE, La. - The leader of a Louisiana parish that has been one of the hardest hit by the oil disaster in the Gulf says the admiral in charge of the response needs to be replaced.