Ryan Humphreys, an employee at the Miller Environmental Group (MEG) sifts through sand, allowing the larger globules of oil to remain in the sifting pan in a one mile stretch of sand on Atlantic Beach, near Jones Beach, N.Y., Friday, Nov. 23, 2007.
The Coast Guard, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, (DEC) and Miller Environmental Group, along with other state and federal agencies, responded and conducted cleanup operations after a 500 gallon oil spill along the southern shore of Long Island.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA3 Seth Johnson.