BAY JIMMY, La. (AP) - In the oil-fouled marshes of the Mississippi River delta, the sizzling high-noon heat beats down
like a fist.

There's hardly a breeze to stir the reeds dotted across the tea colored water, but Allen Sreiy is covered from the chin down by a white plastic suit, his feet in bright yellow boots, hands in thick blue plastic gloves.

Sreiy's Tyvek suit, worn by hundreds of workers cleaning up oil along the Gulf Coast, protects crews from the crude but it also
makes for a sweaty - and potentially dangerous - mess as a sweltering heat wave sweeps across the region.

"Whatever the temperature is, you put on this suit and you add 30 degrees just like that," Sreiy said.