said NOAA head Jane Lubchenco at an Aug. 4 White House press briefing. "And most of the remainder is degrading rapidly or is being removed from the beaches." That was good news for BP &#151; which hadn't had much in a while &#151; and just as good for right-wing bloggers and commentators like Rush Limbaugh, who had been claiming that greens exaggerated the disaster in order to boost the environmental cause. <span class='see'><a href='http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1985277,00.html' target='_bl