Nearly a year has passed since the April 20, 2010 explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and caused millions of gallons of crude oil to spew into the Gulf of Mexico. And while the world's worst oil spill was finally sealed in September, the reverberations are still being felt across stakeholders ranging from BP and the oil industry to the region's tourism and seafood industries.

A report released on January 5 by the White House ...