One easy way to see what the US government is doing to coordinate its response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is by looking at the
Joint Information Center Twitter account.
For those who are so busy complaining about the lack of responsiveness, it might be helpful to see what is actually being done and the number of coordinated federal, state, and local responses in coordination with businesses, media, and residents of the area.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/23/869212/-What-Obama-is-doing-about-the-BP-oil-spill