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	2010 DECEMBER Dec. 31, 2010 Scientists Study Gulf Fish for Signs of Oil Damage NewsHour Correspondent Tom Bearden talks to researchers who are assessing the long-term damage to the Gulf. In Alabama, scientists are examining whether damage done to fish larvae is linked to the oil spill.

	Dec. 31, 2010 Challenging Cleanup Ahead for Gulf Coast Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, talks to Ray Suarez about the administration's efforts to address the environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico.

	Dec. 31, 2010 Environmental Questions Persist in Post-Spill Gulf Ray Suarez revisits one of the biggest stories of the year - the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Months after the well was sealed, questions remain about exactly how much damage the massive spill has done to the Gulf Coast.

	Dec. 28, 2010 'Secrets Beneath the Ice' Goes Back in Time to Predict the Future NOVA's latest documentary, 'Secrets Beneath the Ice,' examines how Antarctica will be affected by the predicted 3-5 degree increase in temperature.

	Dec. 24, 2010 The Business of Forest Smuggling KCTS in Seattle, Washington looks into the illegal side of the holiday industry of forest greenery. Lesley McClurg has more on how forest smuggling has short term effects on businesses and long term effects on the environment.

	Dec. 24, 2010 The Business of Greenery Smuggling in Washington State It's a familiar sight this time of year; the live Christmas wreath on a door or a bit of holiday-themed greenery on a table. Our PBS colleagues at KCTS in Seattle reported recently on the illegal side of the holiday decor industry.

	Dec. 17, 2010 News Wrap: $7 Billion Recouped for Madoff Victims In other news Friday, the widow of a wealthy investor who was a friend of Bernard Madoff is returning $7.2 billion to victims of Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme from money her husband received from him over three decades.

	Dec. 16, 2010 Polar Bears Have a Chance -- If Drastic Steps are Taken A study by a team of high-profile agencies says that polar bears have a chance -- if we sharply cut our greenhouse gas emissions.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Avoiding Eruptions - While Covering Them It took a long time and a lot of persistence to get to the summit of the most active volcano in Indonesia. The trip down came quicker - and went faster than I would have liked. Clearly, I lived to tell the tale - and the biggest personal risk to my well-being came from an eruption of ire among my compadres.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Cancun Climate Talks: Signs of Progress or More Stumbling Blocks? As the U.N. Climate Negotiations wind up in Cancun, Mexico, we asked a variety of experts and climate watchers what they make of the summit so far, and what its outcome could mean for the future of international climate policy.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Cancun Climate Talks Enter Final Days, Report Shows Rapidly Melting Glaciers As global temperatures rise, glaciers are rapidly losing mass, especially in low-lying, arid regions, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Program this week.

	Dec. 3, 2010 Washington Inmates Help Protect Endangered Frog, Prison Budget As part of our NewsHour Connect series showcasing public media reporting from around the nation, Jule Gilfillan reports for Oregon Public Broadcasting on a program that has inmates working on environmental projects to conserve water and help protect endangered spotted frogs.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Miles O'Brien: Exploring the Eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi On Thursday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Indonesia on the science and the superstition surrounding the recent eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano. Hari Sreenivasan caught up with O'Brien in Java for a debrief on his reporting and the "mysticism of the mountain."

	Dec. 1, 2010 News Wrap: Offshore Drilling Plan Reversed by Obama Adminstration In other news Wednesday, the Interior Department said it is reversing the plan laid out last March to drill for oil off the East Coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration unveiled the plan before the BP oil spill. The new plan means no new drilling proposals off of the East Coast for at least seven years.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 29, 2010 As Wind Power Expands, So Do Threats to Bat Population Ed Jahn of Oregon Public Broadcasting looks at the deadly effect wind power turbines can have on migratory bats in the Pacific Northwest.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Fund Chief Feinberg Defends Record on Claims Payments Jeffrey Brown speaks with Kenneth Feinberg, the independent overseer of BP's $20 billion oil disaster compensation fund, about how the claims process is proceeding and what he makes of criticism from Gulf Coast residents and business owners.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Louisiana Official: Oil Spill Claims Process 'Cumbersome, Complicated' The window for short-term compensation claims to BP's $20 billion oil spill disaster fund closed on Tuesday. Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Young, president of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, about how Gulf Coast residents and businesses are coping with how the claims process is being handled by fund administrator Ken Feinberg.

	Nov. 9, 2010 Obama Visits Indonesia; Hearings on Oil Spill Resume; Afghans Back Taliban Talks President Obama is in Indonesia Tuesday for a brief visit that will include meetings with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a major speech to the Muslim world, his second after his address in Cairo last year.

	Nov. 8, 2010 At Oil Spill Commission Hearing, 'Rough Day' for BP, Halliburton, Transocean The lead investigator of the national oil spill commission said there's no evidence of BP trading dollars for safety, but a long list of errors by the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig's operation were aired at a new round of hearings starting Monday. Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post has more.

	Nov. 8, 2010 Watch Live: BP Oil Spill Commission Hearing The National Oil Spill Commission is holding two days of public hearings this week on the cause of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that triggered the disaster.

	Nov. 8, 2010 Obama in India; BP Oil Spill Hearings Begin; Myanmar's Junta Holds Election President Obama meets with leaders in India for a second day, a commission on the BP oil spill questions executives, and Myanmar is counting votes after a much-criticized election.



	OCTOBER Oct. 26, 2010 Frontline, ProPublica Examine BP's Dismal Safety Record and Gulf Oil Spill The past decade was one of rapid growth for BP, a company that now dominates the oil industry. Mergers expanded the BP empire and cost-cutting helped keep shareholders happy. The newest collaboration between Frontline and ProPublica is an hour-long documentary called "The Spill."

	Oct. 22, 2010 6 Months After Gulf Oil Crisis Began, Environmental Fears and 'Spillionaires' Six months after oil began flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP's blown-out well is long capped but the effects of the spill are still being felt.

	Oct. 13, 2010 How Many Wind Farms Are in the Works for the U.S.? Google announced Tuesday that it will invest in an enormous new project to build an undersea transmission line off the mid-Atlantic coast that could bring energy from offshore wind farms to as many as 1.9 million households. But how many wind farms are already in the works for the U.S.?

	Oct. 12, 2010 Obama Administration Lifts Ban on Deep Water Oil Drilling A temporary ban on deep water oil drilling has been lifted. The moratorium was put in place after the BP spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Judy Woodruff talks to reporter Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post for more.

	Oct. 12, 2010 Ban Lifted on Deep Water Oil Drilling The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is lifting a moratorium on offshore oil drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

	Oct. 12, 2010 First Satellite Image of Hungary's Toxic Sludge NASA's Earth Observatory has released a new image of the toxic spill in Hungary.

	Oct. 7, 2010 EU Spokesman: Hungary Has Requested Sludge Clean-up Help Margaret Warner speaks with Joe Hennon, a European Commission spokesman, about the health and environmental risks of the toxic red sludge spreading in Hungary.

	Oct. 7, 2010 In Hungary, Toxic Red Sludge Reaches Danube River The toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary has reached the Danube River, raising concerns of more widespread environmental damage in Europe. Margaret Warner has more.

	Oct. 7, 2010 Obama Administration Defends Oil Spill Response After Critical Report A presidential commission has offered some harsh words of criticism of the White House response to the BP oil spill. Ray Suarez talks to David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post for details.

	Oct. 7, 2010 Thursday: Toxic Sludge Reaches Danube; Karzai Opens Peace Council The toxic red sludge that has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week -- the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks -- reached parts of the Danube River on Thursday, an emergency official said.

	Oct. 6, 2010 Report: Government Underestimated, Underreported Oil Spill Size According to the National Oil Spill Commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, the White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public the worst-case estimates of the leak in late April or early May.

	Oct. 6, 2010 Toxic Sludge From Hungary Spill Coats Villages, Threatens Danube A red-tinged toxic sludge has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week - the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks in Ajka.

	Oct. 5, 2010 In Middle East, Coalition Aims to Ease Tension Over Water Resources As the Israelis and Palestinians grapple with direct negotiations for peace, there's another issue that is dividing them: water. Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Middle East.

	Oct. 4, 2010 Feinberg: Distance Not a Determining Factor in Paying Oil Spill Claims Since BP first announced it would establish a $20 billion fund to pay claims from the oil spill disaster along the Gulf Coast, one of the more vexing questions has been about what kind of role proximity to the disaster should play in the compensation decisions.

	Oct. 1, 2010 Feinberg: Gulf Oil Spill Claims Paid More Quickly, But Tough Calls Ahead Payments for claims tied to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are set to crack the $1 billion mark next week, but there are still at least 20,000 claims that have yet to be resolved and there seem to be a larger number of cases of fraud than expected. We get an update from Ken Feinberg, the administrator of the claims fund.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 27, 2010 News Wrap: NATO, Afghan Troops Step Up Pressure on Taliban In other news Monday, NATO and Afghan soldiers ramped up offensive efforts against Taliban fighters in Southern Afghanistan to reclaim an insurgent stronghold.

	Sept. 23, 2010 New Gulf Oil Spill Flow Rate Estimate Released In the early days of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, estimates varied wildly on the amount of oil gushing from the blown-out well. But on Thursday in the journal Science, Timothy Crone, a marine geophysicist from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, released another estimate.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Oil Disaster Draws New Attention to Louisiana's Coastal Erosion Even though the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been permanently sealed, Louisiana is continuing its battle against another environmental challenge: coastal erosion. Tom Bearden reports.

	Sept. 22, 2010 'Art of Dirt' and Rural Life An exhibit sponsored by International Development Enterprises in Denver features paintings and photos of rural life in places such as India, Honduras, Ethiopia and Vietnam, along with models of IDE's irrigation and water sanitation equipment for visitors to try.

	Sept. 20, 2010 How Safe Would Genetically Modified Salmon Be to Eat? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in the process of deciding whether to allow genetically modified salmon to be sold to American consumers and how to label them if they are sold. Margaret Warner gets two perspectives.

	Sept. 20, 2010 Adm. Allen on Oil Cleanup: 'We're Negotiating How Clean Is Clean' Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the permanent sealing of BP's blown-out oil well, what has been learned to prevent or contain future disasters, and what must be done to clean up the Gulf of Mexico and the fragile coastal wetlands.

	Sept. 20, 2010 Oil Well Killed, But Legal and Environmental Battles Just Beginning After a weekend of final sealing and testing, the federal government on Sunday declared the Macondo oil well officially dead. The "well-kill" is an end to one chapter of the Deepwater Horizon story, but other chapters are just beginning. Here's a roundup of stories to watch:

	Sept. 20, 2010 Monday: Afghan Elections Marred by Fraud, Violence; Bombs Kill 36 in Iraq The Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan is voicing "serious concerns" about the integrity of Saturday's parliamentary elections.

	Sept. 17, 2010 Friday: Afghans Prepare to Vote Amid Violence; Gulf Well Close to Being Sealed Afghan President Hamid Karzai is urging citizens to vote in Saturday's parliamentary elections despite fears of violence and threats from the Taliban and BP announced that the oil well that leaked millions of gallons into the Gulf this summer will be sealed for good this weekend.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Bacteria Gobbling Natural Gas in the Gulf While attention on the Gulf has mostly focused on oil, the explosion and spill also released tremendous amounts of natural gas.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Can We Both Feed the World in a Sustainable Way and Feed it Quality Food? Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk." In this post, Paul considers the sustainability of food production for an ever-increasing world population, and whether that food will be natural or synthetic.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Slide Show: Capturing the Gulf's Healing Process AP photographer Gerald Herbert has been documenting the Gulf oil disaster -- from the land, sea and air -- since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. Since we last spoke with him, Herbert has followed not only the spill's effect on wildlife -- but also the lingering human and economic tolls.

	Sept. 8, 2010 BP Admits Errors in Gulf Oil Disaster But Spreads Blame BP issued a new internal report blaming the largest offshore oil spill in history on a series of human and mechanical failures. Judy Woodruff talks to Steven Mufson of the Washington Post about the report.

	Sept. 8, 2010 8 Key Failures Led to Gulf Oil Spill, BP Report Says In its long-awaited internal report on this summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP blamed contractors Halliburton and Transocean for many of the problems leading up to the country's worst-ever oil spill -- igniting anger from the companies blamed.

	Sept. 8, 2010 Wednesday: BP Releases Report on Gulf Spill; Obama to Propose Economic Plans In a 193-page report posted on its website Wednesday, British oil company BP partly blamed itself for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill, as well as companies Transocean and Halliburton and a complex "sequence of failures.

	Sept. 3, 2010 Pride Prevalent, but Wounded, at Louisiana Shrimp and Oil Festival Even after the BP oil spill all but canceled this year's shrimp harvest in the Gulf of Mexico, the 75th Annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City, Louisiana, is proceeding full-steam ahead.Pride Prevalent, But Wounded at Louisiana Shrimp and Oil Festival

	Sept. 3, 2010 Louisiana Shrimp, Petroleum Festival Draws Attention Amid Oil Woes Some people might find it odd that Morgan City, La. has a Shrimp and Petroleum Festival. Somehow the two don't seem to go together. But some local citizens get a bit testy if you ask them about that juxtaposition. Tom Bearden reports.

	Sept. 2, 2010 BP Removes Cap From Well, Moves Toward Final Well Kill BP engineers on Thursday removed the cap that first stopped the blown-out Macondo oil well from spewing oil and gas back in mid-July.

	Sept. 2, 2010 Showdown Over 'Global Warming Solutions' in Calif. Spencer Michels reports on the debate over AB 32, a 2006 law cutting greenhouse gas emissions in California, and Prop 23, a ballot initiative that would repeal it. Environmentalists say what happens in the November election could derail green industry progress in the Golden State.

	Sept. 2, 2010 Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes; 13 Workers Rescued Thirteen workers were plucked from the water after another offshore oil rig exploded Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico. One person was reported to be injured, but there were no deaths.



	AUGUST Aug. 31, 2010 Review Puts U.N. Climate Panel on the Hot Seat A management overhaul, more transparency, more alternative views and a stronger communications policy. These are among the recommendations that the InterAcademy Council (IAC,) a multi-national group of science academies, has urged for the U.N. Climate Panel.

	Aug. 30, 2010 In Louisiana, Wetlands Erosion is a Slow-Moving Crisis What hardly anybody talks about in New Orleans is what could one day undo all the progress of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina. The Louisiana coastline -- with its valuable wetlands -- is in trouble.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Will New Levees Protect New Orleans From the Next Hurricane? The Army Corps of Engineers has built new flood walls and levees around New Orleans. But some critics say that it might not be enough to protect the city from the next hurricane.

	Aug. 26, 2010 An Updated Oil Widget This widget is the latest version of what has long been the PBS NewsHour's SpillCam.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Louisiana to get $15 Million for Mental Health Services Recently, BP announced that it would give $52 million for mental health services in the states most affected by the spill, including $15 million for Louisiana.

	Aug. 26, 2010 At Louisiana Forum, Questions on Oil Spill's Long-Term Impact About 60 people gathered in Buras, La., last week to ask a panel of experts questions about the long-term impact of the spill on their lives and livelihoods. NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden co-moderated the forum with Louisiana Public Broadcasting's program "Louisiana Public Square."

	Aug. 25, 2010 'Revolutionary' Ultra Light Car Aims for an X Prize Could a new ultra light car that promises to get 100 miles per gallon change the way we drive? Judy Woodruff reports on a group of mechanics and engineers who want to change modern day cars and win the $5 million X Prize.

	Aug. 25, 2010 The Ninth Ward: Five Years Later Betty Ann Bowser looks at what has changed in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans -- and what hasn't -- since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area five years ago.

	Aug. 24, 2010 Study: Oil-Eating Microbes Plentiful in Gulf Oil Spill Oil-eating bacteria proliferated below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, helping to break down and clean up an underwater oil plume that stretched miles from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, according to a study released Tuesday by the journal Science.

	Aug. 20, 2010 BP Set to Hand Over Control of $20B Gulf Coast Oil Claims Fund On Monday, residents and businesses affected by the Gulf Coast oil leak will begin submitting their damage claims to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, the new independent group that will take over the administration of BP's $20 billion compensation fund.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Oil Plume Study Raises New Questions on Spill Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released the first conclusive evidence of an underwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeffrey Brown talks to one of the study's authors, Chris Reddy, and David Farenthold of The Washington Post.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Scientists Map Gulf Oil Plume Months after the Deepwater Horizon oil leak began, a 22-mile-long, 1.2-mile-wide and 650-foot-high plume of microscopic oil compounds floated 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the well, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Gulf Relief Well Completion Delayed to Mid-September The government and BP have pushed back to mid-September the completion of a relief well that will permanently kill the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Thursday.

	Aug. 18, 2010 In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points affects millions of people every day.

	Aug. 17, 2010 Oil Well Is Almost Dead, but Legal Wrangling Just Beginning for BP In the coming years, BP will face a complex stew of litigation, fines and penalties stemming from the Gulf oil spill.

	Aug. 16, 2010 News Wrap: 130 Survive Airliner Crash in Caribbean; 1 Dead In other news Monday, a Colombian airliner, carrying 131 passengers, crashed and broke into three parts on a resort island Monday but only one person was killed. In Iraq, former premier Iyad Allawi and his alliance called off talks to form a new government with Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's Shiite bloc.

	Aug. 16, 2010 Monday: Karzai Sets Exit Deadline for Contractors; Gulf Shrimp Season Opens Afghan President Hamid Karzai is setting a four-month deadline for private security companies to cease operations in the country, a government spokesman said Monday.

	Aug. 13, 2010 Debate Over Reopening Gulf Fishing Grounds Falls Along Surprising Lines The state of Louisiana is about to reopen several state-controlled fishing grounds that were closed because of the Macondo oil well disaster. You'd think that fishermen would be thrilled with that idea. You'd be wrong.

	Aug. 13, 2010 BP May Have Already Sealed Well for Good; Decision on Plug Expected Officials hope to know early Friday if BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed for good. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's person in charge of the effort, scheduled a news conference for 1:45 p.m. EDT to give an update on the operation.

	Aug. 11, 2010 What Happens to Debris From Gulf Oil Cleanup? Piles of plastic bags containing tar balls from Gulf Coast shorelines are packed up each day and millions of gallons oily water have been skimmed. But where is the debris from the Gulf oil disaster being taken? Tom Bearden reports.

	Aug. 11, 2010 In the Gulf, Questions Over Where to Put Oil Waste The Macondo oil well in the Gulf may be capped, but the containment and cleanup effort generated a huge amount of waste. View a map of waste disposal sites.

	Aug. 11, 2010 Wednesday: BP Crews Wait Out Storm; Pakistani President Defends Trip Crews in the Gulf of Mexico drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug BP's oil well will have to wait two to three days as a tropical depression passes over the site.

	Aug. 9, 2010 What Happened to Democrats' Energy, Climate Change Legislation Plans? With the Senate at home for the summer, a clean-energy and climate-change bill appears to be all but dead. For a closer look at what pulled the plug on the legislation, Margaret Warner is joined by environmental writers Darren Samuelsohn of Politico and Eric Pooley of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine.

	Aug. 9, 2010 What Killed Obama's Energy Bill Plans? Lawmakers have declared the chances of getting a major energy bill through this Congress all but dead. But the prospects for getting legislation addressing the problems of rising greenhouse gases actually began fading weeks ago.

	Aug. 9, 2010 Monday: Drilling to Resume on Oil Relief Well; Aid Group to Stay in Afghanistan Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday that cement forced down the top of BP's blown-out well last week has hardened enough so that workers can begin drilling the final 100 feet of the relief well and seal the well for good. An aid group says it will stay in Afghanistan after 10 people were killed on a medical mission.

	Aug. 6, 2010 In Louisiana, Journalists and Cleanup Crews Bake in the Heat If you're not used to it, the heat and humidity along the Gulf Coast can be devastating. Correspondent Tom Bearden's not used to it, despite having made eight trips to the Gulf since April 28. He lives in Colorado, where the humidity rarely gets above 60 percent. Read more in his latest dispatch from Louisiana.

	Aug. 5, 2010 Gulf Residents Wonder How Long BP, Government Will Stick Around for Cleanup The government reports that most of the leaked oil is gone from Gulf waters and shorelines, but there is now growing concern and questions on how long cleanup crews will be around. Tom Bearden reports from Venice, Louisiana.

	Aug. 5, 2010 BP Begins Cementing Well in Final 'Static Kill' Step BP began pumping cement into its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday morning, the final step in the "static kill" maneuver that began Tuesday afternoon.

	Aug. 5, 2010 Gulf Residents Ask: Will Promises Be Broken on the Oil Spill Response? A lot of people in south Louisiana think the rest of the country is about to abandon them.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Browner: Static Kill 'Good News' for Gulf, But Relief Wells Still Needed Political leaders welcomed BP's report of success in the static kill operations on the Gulf oil well, while some Gulf residents remained apprehensive about a report saying that roughly three-quarters of the leaked oil was gone. Judy Woodruff speaks with the president's chief assistant on energy and climate change, Carol Browner.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Report Says Oil Mostly Gone, But Some Along Gulf Remain Skeptical BP reports the static kill on the Gulf oil well is a success so far, but some Gulf Coast residents are questioning a new government report that states around three-quarters of the spilled oil is already gone. Gwen Ifill reports on the latest developments in the Gulf.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Almost 75% of Oil in Gulf Now Accounted For, Government Says Almost three-quarters of the oil that was released into the Gulf of Mexico during the nearly three-month-long Deepwater Horizon oil leak has been vacuumed up, burned, naturally biodegraded or dispersed in the water, according to a government report released Wednesday.

	Aug. 4, 2010 BP's 'Static Kill' Holding Back Oil Flow Nearly four months after the worst accidental oil leak in history began in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is claiming a victory in its effort to plug its blown-out oil well.

	Aug. 3, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: Senators Set to Leave Town Without Energy Bill Action A crowded hallway packed with Capitol Hill reporters waited for the final interaction with Senate Democratic and Republican leaders that winds down the summer session of Congress.

	Aug. 3, 2010 BP Starts 'Static Kill': Beginning of the End for Gulf Oil Well? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hit a stumbling block in an effort to pass a bill that would have lifted an oil spill liability cap. Judy Woodruff speaks with Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach about the latest on efforts to permanently seal the Gulf oil well.

	Aug. 3, 2010 BP Could Be Fined Billions for Largest Oil Accident in History A federal task force of scientists released a new estimate that more than 200 million gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since late April -- the largest accidental oil spill in history. It could also mean BP could be fined billions if cited for gross negligence or willful misconduct.

	Aug. 3, 2010 BP Begins 'Static Kill' Attempt BP began the static kill attempt of the Gulf oil well at 4 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to a statement by the company.

	Aug. 3, 2010 The Oil Spill Put in Perspective With the government's latest estimate of the Gulf oil leak, we try to put the new numbers in perspective to get a better grasp of the magnitude. For example, how many years would it take to spill 205.8 million gallons of water from the average backyard garden hose at full pressure?

	Aug. 3, 2010 Tuesday: BP to Attempt 'Static Kill'; Floods Spreading in Pakistan Crews hoped to begin pumping mud and cement into the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday in what BP officials said could be the permanent fix to the spill.

	Aug. 2, 2010 New Estimate Puts Gulf Oil Leak at 205 Million Gallons After weeks of calculating and revising, the group of scientists appointed by the government to estimate the size of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak have released new figures that, if correct, will make the leak the world's largest accidental spill.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Jean-Michel Cousteau Dives Into Tales of Famous Father's Legacy Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the famous oceanographer, has written a new book, "My Father, the Captain: My Life With Jacques Cousteau," about his father's legacy and his relationship with him as a friend, confidante and employee. Jeffrey Brown has more.

	Aug. 2, 2010 As BP Looks to Start Static Kill, a Firsthand Look at Discoverer Enterprise Ship In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, crews are confident that they are close to finally killing the oil well that's been gushing for months. Tom Bearden reports from a ship that has played a key role in the effort to contain the oil.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Going Aboard the Drillship Discoverer Enterprise in the Gulf For months, the eyes of the world were focused on the images of the Gulg oil leak coming from the drillship Discoverer Enterprise. On Saturday, the NewsHour was part of the first media tour of the ship.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Monday: BP Set for 'Static Kill' on Well BP is poised to begin a new procedure as early as Monday to plug its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico.



	JULY July 30, 2010 News Wrap: BP Plans to Cut Back Gulf Cleanup Efforts In other news Friday, with no more oil spewing out of the well, BP says the cleanup efforts will decrease along the Gulf. Also a major flood killed 430 people in Pakistan.

	July 30, 2010 China's Nuclear Power Building Boom The demand for emission-free nuclear electricity in China is growing as quickly as its megacities and middle-class.

	July 30, 2010 From Gulf Oil Well to Landfill: The Journey of a Tarball Tarballs, the marble-like bits of oil that have been washing up on Gulf of Mexico beaches since May, have become one of the most visible byproducts of the oil disaster -- they've hit every Gulf Coast state. But the sticky gobs of weathered oil aren't new -- they have been a nuisance since the 1950s.

	July 30, 2010 Friday: BP to Detail Gulf Plan; July Now Deadliest Month for U.S. in Afghanistan Newly-named BP CEO Bob Dudley will outline the company's long-term plans to aid Gulf recovery efforts on Friday and announce the addition of former FEMA chief James Lee Witt as a new leader in the oil spill response effort. Also, three U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan in separate bombings in the last 24 hours.

	July 29, 2010 News Wrap: Karzai Says U.S., NATO Must Strike Taliban Havens In other news Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that the United States and NATO are not attacking Taliban sanctuaries and alluded to sources of terror funding and training taking place in neighboring Pakistan.

	July 29, 2010 Timeline: The Oil Spill at 100 Days As the Deepwater Horizon oil leak surpasses the 100-day mark, here is a timeline of some key events from the past few months with links to NewsHour coverage.

	July 28, 2010 One Man Takes on -- And Funds -- Mission to Clean Up Gulf A man who made his money in the construction crane business is now leading and funding a small operation to clean up the Gulf Coast and assist with other disasters around the world. Spencer Michel reports from Buras, Louisiana.

	July 28, 2010 100 Days Into Oil Disaster, What's in the Gulf Waters? The oil has stopped gushing from the BP's damaged Gulf of Mexico well -- at least for now -- but the damages are apparent along the beaches and marshlands. However, little oil can be seen on the water. Jim Lehrer speaks with a professor about dispersants and water quality in the Gulf.

	July 28, 2010 Wednesday: Pakistani Plane Crashes Outside Islamabad Pakistani rescuers search for bodies in the wreckage of a plane crash Pakistani Passenger Plane Crashes Near Islamabad, 152 DeadA Pakistani passenger plane crashed in the heavily forested hills outside Islamabad Wednesday morning, killing all 152 passengers and crew aboard -- including two Americans.

	July 27, 2010 Feinberg: Indirect Oil Claims Will Be Tougher to Resolve Kenneth Feinberg, who was chosen to administer the $20 billion fund established by BP to settle near-term oil disaster claims, faces both skepticism from Gulf Coast residents and a daunting task in deciding which direct and indirect claims to approve. Tom Bearden reports from Alabama.

	July 27, 2010 Risk Analyst: Oil Liability Tough to Tally, But BP Will Likely Survive Soon-to-be CEO of BP, Bob Dudley, is set to take over for Tony Hayward on Oct. 1. Gwen Ifill speaks with Holly Pattenden of Business Monitor International in London about the leadership switch, the company's liability in the oil disaster and prospects for survival.

	July 27, 2010 BP Finalizes Leadership Shakeup, Replacing Hayward With Dudley BP confirmed that Bob Dudley will take over as CEO of the embattled oil giant in October and announced a $17 billion loss in earnings, saying it paid out at least $32 billion for compensation and cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

	July 27, 2010 Democrats Move to Plan B on Energy Senate Democrats rolled out a scaled-back energy bill Tuesday afternoon that responds to the Gulf oil leak and incentivizes people to make energy-efficient renovations to their homes.

	July 27, 2010 Coast Guard Photos of Newest Oil Leak Earlier Tuesday, a barge collided with an abandoned oil well in Barataria Bay, La., just north of an area already hit by oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak. The 20-foot gusher of oil and natural gas is reportedly hampering efforts to move oil-cleaning equipment through the bay.

	July 27, 2010 Obama Says Afghan Papers Could Jeopardize 'Individuals or Operations' President Obama spoke to reporters Tuesday after meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House.

	July 27, 2010 Wildlife Suffer as Oil Spill Spreads AP Photographer Gerald Herbert, a New Orleans native, has been documenting the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.

	July 27, 2010 Tuesday: BP's Hayward Exits as CEO as Company Reports $17B Loss After days of speculation, BP made it official early Tuesday: embattled CEO Tony Hayward will step down from his post and be replaced by American Robert Dudley.

	July 26, 2010 BP Could Begin Final Oil Well Kill Procedure Next Week BP could begin taking the final steps to try to kill its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as soon as next week, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday.

	July 26, 2010 The Morning Line: Leaked Afghanistan Field Reports to Shape Political War Debate The release of 92,000 classified reports by the website Wikileaks paints a familiar and bleak picture of just how difficult and convoluted achieving success in Afghanistan will be for the American military.

	July 25, 2010 Despite Skeptics, Feinberg Enthusiastic to Put $20B Oil Disaster Fund to Work At 7 a.m. Saturday, Kenneth Feinberg stood in front of a standing-room only crowd at the municipal building in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and told people "I am your lawyer." He didn't get much of a reaction.

	July 24, 2010 Crews Return to Kill Oil Well as Tropical Storm Bonnie Fizzles With Tropical Storm Bonnie downgraded to a tropical depression, a drilling rig and ships associated with the effort to kill the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well reversed course Saturday when the weather forecast improved.

	July 23, 2010 Fear of Oil Damage Heightens as Storm 'Bonnie' Approaches the Gulf Although Tropical Depression Bonnie isn't expected to do much harm on land, many along the Gulf Coast worry that high winds could intensify damage that has already been done by the oil leak. Spencer Michel reports from Louisiana.

	July 23, 2010 Oil Rig Alarm System Was Disabled Before Explosion, Technician Says The chief electrician aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig testified Friday that a fire and natural gas alarm system had been disabled for a year before the rig exploded and sank three months ago, setting off the largest oil leak in U.

	July 23, 2010 Scientist Studies Oil Dispersant's Effects, Methane in the Gulf David Valentine, a geochemist at the University of California-Santa Barbara, discusses how dispersant might interact with bacteria that usually break down oil there. Valentine also believes scientists could study dissolved methane to measure how much oil has leaked.

	July 23, 2010 Friday: Work on Oil Well Stops; North Korea Threatens 'Physical Response' With Tropical Storm Bonnie expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, crews have stopped their efforts to plug BP's broken oil well and clean up the waters, halting work on the two relief wells and evacuating ships from the area.

	July 22, 2010 Along Gulf Coast, Effects of Chemicals in Oil Dispersant Questioned Some are questioning whether the dispersants being used to break apart the oil that has leaked into the Gulf are harmful to wildlife and plants. Spencer Michels reports from Buras, Louisana.

	July 22, 2010 Tropical Storm Bonnie Threatens to Disrupt Efforts to Halt, Clean Up Oil The threat of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico is presenting another challenge to BP's efforts to kill the leaking oil well and clean up the oil that has already leaked. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Gulf state senators, Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Bill Nelson of Florida, over the offshore drilling moratorium debate.

	July 22, 2010 Oil and Arguments in the Gulf There is a charm about New Orleans; a feeling and a culture that is unique. But in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and now the big oil spill, there is a sense of argument as well. People are angry -- and some of them aren't sure at what. Spencer Michels reports from the Crescent City about what's on peoples' minds.

	July 22, 2010 Democrats Say They Don't Have Votes for Comprehensive Energy Bill After meeting with White House Director of Energy Policy Carol Browner, Senate Democrats held a news conference Thursday where Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he will attempt to move pieces of a comprehensive energy legislation instead of a complete bill prior to the August recess.

	July 22, 2010 Oil Well Will Remain Capped During Possible Storm Federal authorities have decided that it will be safe to leave a sealing cap on the Gulf oil well even if all ships have to leave the area during a possible tropical storm this weekend, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Thursday. The well will remain sealed, hopefully preventing any further oil from leaking into the Gulf.

	July 22, 2010 Thursday: Approaching Storm Suspends BP's Efforts in Gulf A storm brewing in the Caribbean is forcing dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico to prepare to evacuate the area where workers are trying to plug BP's oil well and clean the waters.

	July 21, 2010 Local, Federal Officials at Odds Over Oil Protection for Louisiana Bay BP may have to stop testing the containment cap on the Gulf of Mexico oil well due to a storm warning this weekend. Meanwhile, local authorities and federal scientists disagree on how to stop the oil from coming ashore. Tom Bearden reports.

	July 21, 2010 White House Apologizes After 'Hasty' Firing of USDA Employee The firing of a U.S. Department of Agriculture employee for alleged racist remarks ended with an apology from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and a job offer from her former boss, Tom Vilsack. Shirley Sherrod says she accepts the apology but that she will take some time before deciding on her future.

	July 21, 2010 News Wrap: Bernanke Promises to Bolster Recovery If Needed In other news Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke voiced concern about slow economic growth, saying the Fed would take action if needed to help the U.S. economic recovery along.

	July 21, 2010 BP Considers 'Static Kill', Eyes Potential Storm Officials could move forward by the weekend with an operation to begin permanently sealing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters Wednesday.

	July 20, 2010 News Wrap: Gulf Oil Cap Holding Tight on 3-Month Mark of Rig Blast As Tuesday marked the three-month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blast, the cap on the oil well appeared to be holding tight.

	July 20, 2010 With Gulf Well Capped, Oil Flow Rate May Remain a Mystery We may never know how much oil really leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. Over the weekend came news that BP may be able to keep the Deepwater Horizon well capped until two relief wells can permanently seal it.

	July 20, 2010 Tuesday: Concern Remains on Oil Cap; Senate to Vote on Jobless Benefits The federal government and BP continue to keep a close eye on the cap over the broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

	July 19, 2010 Oil Well Will Stay Closed Another Day as Monitoring Continues BP will keep the cap closed for at least 24 more hours on its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news conference Monday afternoon.

	July 19, 2010 Browner on Tensions With BP: 'They Work at Our Direction' Four days after a new containment cap halted the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP and the government are clashing over how to proceed as seepage has been spotted in the vicinity of the well. Judy Woodruff talks to Carol Browner, President Obama's assistant for energy and climate change, for more on the story.

	July 19, 2010 BP, Government Bump Heads Over Next Steps for Oil Cap BP was granted an additional 24 hours to keep the Gulf of Mexico oil well containment cap sealed, but something appears to be seeping from the seafloor about two miles away. Judy Woodruff reports.

	July 19, 2010 Monday: Seep Detected Near BP Oil Well; Cap to Stay for Another 24 Hours Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday morning that BP will be allowed to keep the cap on the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico for another day despite a seep in the sea floor.

	July 18, 2010 BP Says It Plans to Keep Well Cap Closed; Gulf Leak Ticker Stays Paused BP said Sunday morning that tests on a 75-ton containment cap holding back oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico showed no problems and that the company hopes to keep the cap closed until a relief well can be completed in a few weeks.

	July 17, 2010 Oil Well Testing to Continue for Additional 24 Hours After two days of waiting and watching as a containment cap kept new oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since a spill disaster began, officials decided Saturday to extend a test on BP's broken well for another 24 hours.

	July 16, 2010 For Fishermen on Louisiana's Coast, Guarded Optimism on an Oil Fix In Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, residents are glad the gushing oil has stopped, but are also well aware that this is a test that could fail, just like other efforts to stop the flow have failed over the last three months.

	July 16, 2010 Containment Cap Holds Steady as Work on Relief Wells Continues With the new oil well containment cap in place for the past 24 hours and no new signs of oil leaking into the Gulf, President Obama called the news hopeful but reaffirmed the need for a permanent solution. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana.

	July 16, 2010 Time Lapse: Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a little more than a minute, and revealing the process that finally stemmed the flow of oil on July 15.

	July 16, 2010 The Oil Cap Is Holding -- Now What? For now, at least, there is no oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

	July 16, 2010 BP Continues to Monitor Cap; Encouraged by Early Results President Obama told reporters Friday that BP's capping of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was "good news," but cautioned that testing continued.

	July 15, 2010 Gulf Wildlife Protection, Rehabilitation Efforts Face Ongoing Challenges As news broke that the oil leak had been halted at least for now, work continued to help rescue the diverse wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Tom Bearden reports from the Louisiana coast.

	July 15, 2010 BP Holding Back Oil, for Now; Ticker Stands Still Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap.

	July 15, 2010 Oil Gusher Halted At Least for Now: 'Something Went Right' For the first time since April, the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico stopped -- at least temporarily -- Thursday after BP sealed a containment cap during the start of pressure tests on the device. Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post talks to Jim Lehrer about the latest efforts to cap the oil leak.

	July 15, 2010 Obama Praises Financial Reform, Calls Oil Stoppage a 'Positive Sign' President Obama spoke to reporters this afternoon, praising the Senate's passage of a financial reform bill and offering brief comments on BP's test of a cap over its broken wellhead, which has temporarily stopped the flow of oil.

	July 15, 2010 Images: BP's Operation to Close Oil Well These images were captured from the BP live video feed in the moments after the company announced that it had fully stemmed the flow of oil from its broken well in the Gulf.

	July 15, 2010 BP Set to Begin Test on New Well Cap BP again plans to ramp up testing of its newest well cap system Thursday. The multi-stage test, which will take 48 hours, will determine the company's next step in its attempt to control the leak.

	July 15, 2010 Thursday: Vote on Financial Reform Nears; BP Set to Proceed on Cap Test The U.S. Senate is planning to vote on a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations with at least three Republicans, 55 Democrats and two independents expected to support the bill. In the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers repaired a leak found on a line attached to the new cap on its broken well.

	July 14, 2010 Cousteau Returns to Gulf to Survey Oil Damage Oceanographer and documentary filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau recently checked in with the Rundown to update us on his team's explorations since returning to the Gulf Coast.

	July 14, 2010 Fed to Gulf Coast Banks: Help Those Hurt by the Spill The Federal Reserve urged Gulf Coast banks Wednesday to help customers get through what is sure to be a tough road ahead economically due to the ongoing oil disaster.

	July 14, 2010 Wednesday: BP Delays Test on New Cap; Eight Americans Killed in Afghanistan Oil continued to flow into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as the plan to start slowly shutting off valves on the new cap over the well was suddenly halted.

	July 13, 2010 Oil Spill, Day 84: The Cap Comes Down BP locked down its new sealing cap -- "the 3 ram stack" -- around 7 p.m. CST last night and a new container ship connected to the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well an hour later, raising hopes that more oil -- maybe even all of it -- can be captured before it spills into the Gulf of Mexico.

	July 13, 2010 Tuesday: BP Tests New Cap; Cuba Frees 7 Political Prisoners; Steinbrenner Dies BP on Tuesday will begin testing the new, tight-fitting cap on top of the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico to see if it will hold and stop oil from spilling for the first time in nearly three months.

	July 12, 2010 BP Works to Install New Cap on Broken Oil Well The Obama administration is pushing for a revised offshore drilling moratorium as a new containment cap is installed on a leaking oil well in the Gulf.

	July 12, 2010 Oil Spill Update: Anticipation Grows That New Efforts Will Stem Flow Oil flowed nearly-unabated from the Deepwater Horizon's well Sunday as BP worked to replace its containment dome that had helped funnel oil to a container ship on the surface for more than a month.

	July 9, 2010 Oil Spill Takes Emotional Toll on Gulf Residents Citing the "unprecedented" nature of the BP oil spill disaster, federal and state medical officials expressed concern Friday about what they see as mounting mental health issues that people in the Gulf states are facing.

	July 9, 2010 Oil Spill Update, Day 80: BP Readies New Top Hat BP is hoping a window of calm weather will give it time to swap out containment domes over the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico.

	July 9, 2010 Friday: U.S., Russia Swap Spies; BP Devises Backup Plan for Well The United States and Russia completed the largest spy swap since the Cold War on Friday, exchanging 10 spies arrested in the United States for four convicted in Russia.

	July 8, 2010 Solar Power Takes to the Skies With 26-Hour Flight An experimental plane powered only by solar energy completed 26 hours of non-stop flying over Switzerland Thursday.

	July 8, 2010 Scientists Turn to Microscopic Bacteria for Help With Spreading Oil As the large amounts of oil continue to foul the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have begun using microbes to help clean affected marshlands. Tom Bearden reports.

	July 8, 2010 Thursday: Reports of Possible Spy Swap; Terror Arrests in Norway Armored vehicles arrived Thursday morning at a Moscow prison in preparation for what could be the largest spy swap with the United States since the Cold War.

	July 8, 2010 The Oil Spill Diet Oil-consuming bacteria naturally help break down the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists are studying how to encourage the microbes to work faster. Explore how it would work in this graphic.

	July 7, 2010 In Louisiana, 'Toxic Trailers' Return to House Oil Workers It was just a couple of weeks ago when I looked out the window of our van as we drove through southernmost Louisiana ... and wondered where all those mobile homes and travel trailers came from.

	July 7, 2010 Wednesday: NATO Airstrike Kills Afghan Troops; Oil Found in New Orleans Lake Three American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in the southern Afghanistan and a NATO airstrike mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in the east on Wednesday, officials said.

	July 6, 2010 Oil Spill Update: Skimming Efforts Falling Short Skimming efforts haven't proven nearly as effective at removing oil from the Gulf of Mexico as BP told federal regulators just before the Deepwater Horizon exploded, the Washington Post reports.

	July 6, 2010 Tuesday: Oil Washes Ashore on Texas Beaches; Obama to Meet With Netanyahu Strong storms and rough water in the Gulf of Mexico kept oil skimming boats idle Tuesday morning, as BP's oil reached Texas beaches for the first time.

	July 5, 2010 Heavy Surf, High Winds Affect Cleanup as Weather Continues to Strike Gulf Many ships, including the testing of a new "super skimmer ship", were prevented from cleaning the shorelines as rough conditions persisted this weekend in the Gulf of Mexico. Ray Suarez talks to Greg McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas, about continuing efforts in the Gulf cleanup.

	July 5, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: One-on-One in Houston With BP's Bob Dudley Ever since our hour-long, live-streaming interview with BP executive Bob Dudley last week, which featured questions from the public submitted via YouTube and Google, people have been asking Rau Suarez questions about how the conversation unfolded and the reactions to it.

	July 5, 2010 Monday: BP's Costs Reach $3 Billion; Petraeus Takes Over in Afghanistan BP's costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has reached just over $3 billion for capping the well, cleanup of the waters and beaches and payouts to individuals, businesses and governments.

	July 2, 2010 Alabama's Oiled Beach Towns Brace for Big Tourist Season Losses As the remnants of Hurricane Alex dissipated over Mexico, a bigger influx of crude from the churning waves washed onto Gulf shores. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from Alabama, where beaches and nearby businesses now sit nearly empty.

	July 2, 2010 Gulf Shore a Tough Sell for Tourists Each night conga lines of beach cleaning machines are towed slowly over the sand from Orange Beach to Gulf Shores, Ala.

	July 1, 2010 Despite BP Spill, Brazil Pushes Forward With Oil Drilling Boom In a report from Brazil, Margaret Warner examines how the country is pursuing deepwater oil drilling even as the Gulf of Mexico spill raises new environmental concerns about the risks involved.

	July 1, 2010 Dudley: BP Intends to Meet Commitments in Gulf 'for Many Years' As oil cleanup continues in the Gulf, Ray Suarez has excerpts from his interview in Houston with BP executive Bob Dudley, who answered viewer questions about the company's cleanup efforts and claims response.

	July 1, 2010 Aftermath From Hurricane Alex Continues to Hamper Oil Cleanup Efforts After-effects from Hurricane Alex again kept oil cleanup crews in port, as one estimate indicated the gusher is now the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeffrey Brown has an update on cleanup efforts.

	July 1, 2010 'America Speaks to BP' Full Transcript: Bob Dudley Interview Google, YouTube and the PBS NewsHour teamed up to bring you into BP headquarters in Houston, Texas, for an exclusive interview with Bob Dudley, the executive newly in change for BP's oil disaster response. Here is the full transcript.

	July 1, 2010 Dudley: BP, Government Researching Options in Case Relief Wells Don't Work In an exclusive live online interview with the NewsHour's Ray Suarez, BP's chief of Gulf coast restoration Bob Dudley said the company and the U.S. government are exploring "at least two options to divert the flow" of oil in the event that relief wells being drilled become the latest failures to kill the blown-out Gulf well.



	JUNE June 30, 2010 Scientists Probe the Ocean Depths to Gauge Gulf Oil Spill Damage Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from Florida on scientists who are going deep underwater with sensor technology to explore the damage caused by BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

	June 30, 2010 Hurricane Alex Signals Storm Season Could Disrupt Oil Cleanup As Hurricane Alex stalls oil capture efforts along the Gulf Coast, Jeffrey Brown talks with a hurricane forecaster and an oil spill response expert about the ongoing oil capture efforts and the difficulties that the hurricane season may bring.

	June 30, 2010 Hurricane Alex Hinders Oil Cleanup Efforts in Gulf High waves and gusting winds from Hurricane Alex hampered cleanup efforts in the Gulf, forcing oil-skimming ships back to shore. Jeffrey Brown reports on the difficulties storm season may pose for the Gulf Coast.

	June 30, 2010 EPA Says Dispersants Safe for Aquatic Life, But Controversy Remains The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that based on its initial toxicity tests, it is not recommending any changes right now to BP's use of the dispersant Corexit 9500 to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

	June 30, 2010 Ask BP Exec Bob Dudley Your Questions for a Live Interview Thursday On Thursday afternoon, Ray Suarez will sit down for an exclusive live interview with BP executive Bob Dudley -- and we want your questions: what would you ask Dudley about the disaster in the Gulf? Find out here how to submit your questions in this collaboration between the NewsHour, YouTube and Google.

	June 30, 2010 In Reporting on Oil Spill, Limits Persist on Media Access in the Gulf Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser and I spent last week reporting the health impact of the oil spill in Plaquemines Parish -- Louisiana's southernmost parish, where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico. There's one roadblock that we encountered that mystified us -- and, we understand, many other journalists.

	June 29, 2010 News Wrap: Stocks Plunge Over Consumer Confidence Concerns In other news Tuesday, Wall Street dropped following a wave of new worries about consumer spending and overseas sell-offs. Also, President Barack Obama voiced confidence about the fate of the financial regulatory reform bill even without the vote of late Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd.

	June 28, 2010 News Wrap: Financial Reform Hits Trouble in Senate, Oil Stains Miss. Beaches In other news Monday, heavy oil reached mainland beaches in Mississippi for the first time as tropical storm waves limited the amount of oil that could be siphoned. Also, people in Kyrgyzstan voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy.

	June 28, 2010 Monday: Kagan Hearings Set to Begin; Sen. Byrd Dies; Oil Hits Miss. Coast Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan begin Monday.

	June 25, 2010 After Hurricanes, Gulf Residents Face New Mental Health Risks Over Oil Leak The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is taking another toll: the mental health of residents, even as the region is still coping with the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Gustav. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser details the problems as seen in the region's sizable Vietnamese community.

	June 25, 2010 Pakistanis Seek Answers to Water Supply Problems Pakistan's aging irrigation infrastructure and years of little rain are adding up to major problems for farmers, prompting the government to subsidize a new drip-style irrigation system. But some farmers still find it too costly to install.

	June 25, 2010 Friday: Financial Reform Deal Reached; BP's Costs Hit $2.35 Billion A sweeping overhaul of Wall Street rules cleared congressional negotiations early Friday after last-minute deals and compromises. Final votes in the House and Senate could come as early as next week, in time to have a bill on President Barack Obama's desk by July 4.

	June 24, 2010 News Wrap: Gulf Oil Cap Working Again After Submarine Collision In other news Thursday, the cap on the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was again operational, following a strike by a remote-controlled submarine on Wednesday. Also, President Barack Obama welcomed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Washington, though no major agreements were announced.

	June 24, 2010 Thursday: Containment Cap Replaced; Gen. Petraeus Returns to Spotlight Engineers repositioned the cap on BP's broken oil well late Wednesday after crews were forced to remove what has been the most effective method for containing some of the Gulf of Mexico spill. Meanwhile, many are weighing in on the appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to take over as top commander in Afghanistan.

	June 23, 2010 Uncertainty Over Health Effects of Oil Cleanup Worry Some Along Gulf As the oil cleanup along the Gulf Coast continues, Betty Ann Bowser reports on the health worries related to the ongoing oil disaster that are arising for some coastal residents and cleanup workers.

	June 23, 2010 News Wrap: Oil Containment Cap Removal a Setback for Gulf Effort In other news Wednesday, BP ran into new troubles in the Gulf when an accident at the damaged wellhead forced crews to remove the cap collecting the oil. Also, the Federal Reserve said it will hold interest rates at record lows due to ongoing concerns about European debt.

	June 23, 2010 Allen: Underwater Robot Collision Halts Oil Capture BP was forced to remove the containment cap that had been capturing some of the oil gushing from the ruptured well in the Gulf, Coast Guard Adm.

	June 23, 2010 Wednesday: Obama, McChrystal Meet; Drilling Ruling to Be Appealed Gen. Stanley McChrystal left the White House roughly 30 minutes after his meeting with President Barack Obama began. He left before a scheduled 11:35 a.m. meeting with top cabinet officials about Afghanistan strategy that he had been asked to attend in person.

	June 22, 2010 Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium's Aims, Effectiveness Debated The Obama administration vowed to appeal a federal judge's ruling, blocking the president's efforts to impose a six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling. Gwen Ifill gets two points of view on the environmental and economic consequences of halting oil exploration in the Gulf.

	June 22, 2010 New Orleans Judge Blocks Deepwater Drilling Ban A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

	June 22, 2010 One Acre Fund Aims to Help Farmers in Africa As Africa faces a mounting food shortage, some farmers in Kenya and Rwanda find themselves unable to grow enough food to feed their families and make a living. A non-profit group called the One Acre Fund is attempting to address their problems.

	June 21, 2010 Reporters Explore Possible Causes for Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Oil Leak New reports suggest that BP cut corners on safety in the design of the blown-out oil well in the Gulf. Gwen Ifill talks to two reporters about what investigations are revealing about the oil giant's actions before the rig exploded and the oil leak began.

	June 21, 2010 Reports Suggest BP Cut Corners on Safety, Design of Gulf Rig As the Gulf oil disaster continues, new reports alleged that BP cut corners on safety measures and understated the oil leakage rate. Gwen Ifill reports.

	June 21, 2010 Monday: Safety Lapses Found on Oil Rig; Israel Approves New Gaza Policy Two reports out Monday show critical safety lapses on the Deepwater Horizon before it exploded on April 20. The federal agency charged with regulating offshore drilling repeatedly declined to act on advice on how it could minimize the risk of failure of a crucial device, the New York Times reports.

	June 21, 2010 Hurricane Season Could Bring More Misery to Haiti, Gulf Coast The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projecting a busy 2010 hurricane season, with as many as seven major hurricanes possible.

	June 18, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Barton's Apology, Obama's Pressure on BP Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the political uproar over Rep. Joe Barton's apology to BP and whether President Obama strongarmed the company into creating a $20 billion escrow fund for victims of the Gulf disaster.

	June 18, 2010 Feinberg: BP 'Trying to Do the Right Thing' But Claims Need Expedited Kenneth Feinberg, who was named by President Obama to independently manage the $20 billion Gulf disaster compensation fund, tells Jeffrey Brown that "time is the enemy" for people who need their claims processed. He also said his independence cannot be challenged and that's it's too early to tell whether the fund is big enough.

	June 18, 2010 Oil Containment Effort Improves; BP's Hayward to Hand Over Some Duties BP said it was making progress drilling relief wells as cleanup of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico showed signs of improving. Jeffrey Brown recaps the latest developments in the Gulf oil disaster.

	June 18, 2010 Barton on the Hot Seat: Looking Back at His Carbon Comments A controversial comment by veteran Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, reminded us of an interview we did with him earlier this year.

	June 18, 2010 Uncertainty Abounds as the Gulf Leak Meter Ticks Higher Last week, we noted that a federal panel raised the estimate of how much oil has been leaking out of the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. But that report left one thing unclear: Did the flow rate increase significantly after June 3?

	June 18, 2010 Gwen's Take: Covering the Oil Disaster As President Obama struggled to assert control over what seems to be an uncontrollable situation, I had the chance to assess the unspooling oil disaster dilemma this week by talking to folks living with it, and folks watching from afar.

	June 18, 2010 Friday: Hayward, Barton Suffer Fallout; Obama Readies for G-20 Summit A day after BP chief executive Tony Hayward appeared before a congressional hearing on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, reaction to his testimony has been unsurprisingly critical -- he "mastered the art of saying very little very carefully"; he was "savaged"; he was on the "hot seat"; he was "mind-bogglingly vapid.

	June 17, 2010 BP Begins 'Flaring' Oil in the Gulf BP has started flaring, or burning, some of the oil it siphons out of the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, the company reported this week.

	June 17, 2010 BP CEO's Testimony Draws Upbraiding by Many on House Energy Panel BP CEO Tony Hayward faced criticism Thursday from both parties at a U.S. House hearing over his company's Gulf disaster response and business practices. Jim Lehrer recaps the developments on Capitol Hill as oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico.

	June 17, 2010 Blueprint America: Dubuque's Move From Gambling to Green Lab The Blueprint America series on infrastructure -- a collaboration with WNET -- has taken us to several places around the country over the last several months: Chicago, San Francisco, and Detroit to name a few.

	June 17, 2010 Liveblogging the Tony Hayward Hearing The Rundown is covering Thursday's congressional subcommittee hearing on the oil leak, featuring testimony by BP CEO Tony Hayward.

	June 17, 2010 Thursday: BP CEO to Appear Before Congress; Israel Eases Access to Gaza A day after meeting with President Obama at the White House and agreeing to a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, BP CEO Tony Hayward will testify before Congress.

	June 16, 2010 Baja Wind Energy Project Could Help Fill California's Sails As President Barack Obama stresses the need for independence from fossil fuels, filmmaker Emma Cott examines one alternative energy project that is looking to harness wind power from Mexico to help meet California's energy demands.

	June 16, 2010 Obama's Spill Response Examined Following Oval Office Address The President acknowledged discontent over his administration's handling of the Gulf oil leak in his Oval Office address to the nation on Tuesday. Gwen Ifill talks to analysts about whether that speech could help bolster confidence in the response to the disaster.

	June 16, 2010 Amid Calls for New Fuel Sources, Wind Energy Proves to Be Complex Endeavor One of the things President Obama called in his address to the nation on the Gulf oil crisis was an end to the country's addiction to fossil fuels. Independent filmmaker Emma Cott has filed a report on the challenges of harnessing wind power from Mexico to meet the demand for energy in California.

	June 16, 2010 BP Official on 'A Good Meeting of the Minds' at the White House BP officials have said they will set aside a fund to pay damages to victims of the Gulf oil spill, following a meeting with President Obama. Judy Woodruff talks to BP Managing Director Bob Dudley about those payouts and the company's decision to suspend dividend payments to stockholders.

	June 16, 2010 BP Agrees to Start $20 Billion Fund for Gulf Disaster Victims BP has agreed to set aside at least $20 billion to pay damages caused by the Gulf oil spill, following tough talk from the Obama administration about quickly responding to victims' claims. Judy Woodruff has an update on the latest from the company's board.

	June 16, 2010 BP, Obama Agree on $20 Billion Fund for Oil Leak Claims President Obama and BP agreed Wednesday on a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the oil leak damaging the Gulf Coast's environment and economies.

	June 16, 2010 Is Gulf Disaster a Political Problem for Obama? Yes, But Not Everywhere Somewhere in the 50-plus days that raw crude has been spewing from a hole in the floor of the ocean, the Gulf oil spill became a political problem for the White House. But the problems for the president aren't the same everywhere.

	June 16, 2010 President Obama's Response to Oil Disaster: Video Timeline Since the Gulf oil spill disaster began in April, President Obama's rhetoric has evolved as the crisis has grown - and as the administration faced calls for a stronger federal response.

	June 16, 2010 Wednesday: President Obama to Meet With BP Executives for First Time People at a bar in Grand Isle, Louisiana, watch President Barack Obama's address to the nation about the oil spill disaster.

	June 15, 2010 Shields and Brooks: Will Obama's Oil Disaster Speech Change Any Minds? After President Obama's Oval Office address on the ongoing Gulf disaster, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks joined Judy Woodruff to review the substance of the primetime speech.

	June 15, 2010 Full Video: President Obama's Oval Office Address on Gulf Oil Disaster Watch all of President Obama's Oval Office address on the federal response to the ongoing Gulf Coast oil leak disaster. Also, make sure to check out analysis and opinion from a variety of experts in Obama's Annotated Oval Office Address.

	June 15, 2010 Gulf Disaster: Obama's Annotated Oval Office Address In his first primetime address from the Oval Office, President Obama spoke to the nation on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday.

	June 15, 2010 Gulf States Face Long Road to Environmental, Economic Recovery As criticism of BP and the Obama administration's handling of the Gulf spill continues, Gwen Ifill talks to two local officials about the president's visit and what it will take for the region to bounce back from the environmental and economic devastation.

	June 15, 2010 Obama Promises 'Unprecedented Response' to Gulf Spill Victims President Barack Obama vowed to do whatever is necessary to clean up the Gulf as he returned to Washington to address the nation, following his visit to survey damage from the blown-out oil well. Judy Woodruff gets a preview of his remarks from White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner.

	June 15, 2010 Oil Executives Face Congressional Criticism Over Spill Readiness BP and other oil executives defended offshore drilling during hearings Tuesday in the House, as criticism of the response to the disaster continues to mount. Ray Suarez has an update on the hearings and the downgrading of BP's credit rating.

	June 15, 2010 Scientists Again Raise Government Estimate of Oil Leak Rate Scientists on a government panel significantly increased their estimate Tuesday of how much oil is gushing out of BP's blown-out well each day.

	June 15, 2010 Oil Execs Grilled Over Spill Readiness; Fire Halts BP Containment Effort Ahead of President Obama's primetime address on the Gulf oil leak disaster, members of Congress blasted oil company executives Tuesday for having "cookie cutter" and "virtually worthless" plans to react to an accident in deep water.

	June 15, 2010 Tuesday: Oil Execs on the Hill; Obama to Address Nation From Oval Office Oil executives from five major companies head to Capitol Hill Tuesday to testify at a House hearing on industry safety as President Obama prepares to deliver remarks to a frustrated nation on the ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil crisis.

	June 15, 2010 Gulf Oil Leak: Watch 6 Live Video Feeds All of these video feeds, which are courtesy of BP, may not be live at all times.

	June 15, 2010 Gulf Disaster: Obama's Annotated Oval Office Address In his first primetime address from the Oval Office, President Obama spoke to the nation on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday. Find expert commentary, background links and NewsHour video related to the speech.

	June 14, 2010 Obama Faces 'A Defining Moment' in Oval Office Oil Leak Speech As President Barack Obama began a two-day trip to survey oil leak damage along the Gulf Coast, Judy Woodruff gets several points of view about the president's authority and public reaction related to the environmental disaster.

	June 14, 2010 White House Legal Authority Over Oil Claims Assessed as Spill Continues As the Obama administration pressures BP to start an independently monitored escrow fund to expedite oil leak damage claims for people and businesses in the Gulf region, Ray Suarez talks to two attorneys about the White House's legal authority to enforce damage payments.

	June 14, 2010 BP Unveils New Strategy to Capture More of Gulf Oil Spill BP has unveiled a new plan to capture more oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico as President Obama starts a two-day visit to the region. Ray Suarez has the on the latest developments on the environmental disaster.

	June 14, 2010 NOAA Launches 'One Stop Shop' for Oil Spill Data The federal government Monday released what it called "a one-stop shop for detailed near-real-time information about the response to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill" in an effort to get updates out the range of groups affected by the ongoing disaster.

	June 14, 2010 Obama Returning to Gulf Coast, Will Address Nation on Oil Spill President Barack Obama will travel to the Gulf Coast on Monday to visit three states affected by the oil spill disaster, taking a ferry trip on the oil-slicked waters around Alabama's vulnerable barrier islands. It will be the president's fourth visit to the region since the spill began six weeks ago.

	June 11, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Obama's Shifting Oil Leak Rhetoric, Responsibility Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the White House's response to the oil spill and special-interest spending this election season.

	June 11, 2010 Oil Leak's Impact on U.S.-British Relations, Economics Examined Lawmakers continue to hold U.K.-based BP's feet to the fire over the ongoing oil leak, sparking some tensions between the U.S. and Britain. Judy Woodruff gets two points of view about the company's future, the billions of dollars at stake and the political divide.

	June 11, 2010 BP Oil Leak Rate Estimate Doubled New estimates suggest BP's ruptured well may have spewed twice as much oil into the Gulf of Mexico before it was capped than previously thought, raising new questions about cleanup and restoration efforts. Judy Woodruff has an update on the scope of the disaster.

	June 11, 2010 BP Aims to Double Capture of Leaking Oil by Mid-July A day after a the federal government doubled its estimate of the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen outlined BP's plan to raise its capacity to capture and process more of that oil each day over the next month.

	June 11, 2010 Obama Administration Requests White House Meeting With BP Execs A day after new estimates showed the amount of oil spewing in to the Gulf of Mexico may be significantly more than previously believed, the Obama administration has asked for a White House meeting next week with senior BP executives.

	June 11, 2010 Health Concerns Heighten as Oil Spill Spreads The sobering images of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are widely known: oil covered birds and sludge-choked coastal grasses. But ecosystems may not be the only ones to see negative effects -- what about the spill's possible health impact on humans?

	June 10, 2010 Government Announces New, Higher Oil Flow Estimates The flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico could have been as low as 20,000 barrels per day and as high as 40,000 or even 50,000 barrels per day before June 3, according to new estimates announced Thursday by U.S.Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt.

	June 10, 2010 Amid Oil Leak, Business Leaders Urge Energy Sector Investment, Research President Obama met Thursday with families of workers killed in the Gulf rig explosion, but he also met with business leaders to discuss energy issues facing the U.S. Judy Woodruff speaks with two of those executives, venture capitalist John Doerr and Chad Holliday, chairman of the board of directors of Bank of America.

	June 10, 2010 Heavy Oil Breaches Alabama, Florida Coastlines Heavy oil fouled more coastline near the Alabama-Florida border, as lawmakers stepped up pressure on BP to expedite its response to claims filed against the company for leak-related damages.

	June 10, 2010 BP Says It Will Speed Up Payments for Gulf Businesses, Workers BP will speed up its claims payments to the shrimpers, fisherman, business owners and others affected by the Gulf coast oil spill, government officials said Thursday.

	June 10, 2010 Thursday: McChrystal Delays Kandahar Operation; BP Shares Plunge At least 40 people were killed and more than 70 were wounded Wednesday night when a suicide bomber struck a wedding party in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, considered the birthplace of the Taliban and the focus of an upcoming U.

	June 9, 2010 Lawmakers: Effects of Oil Spill Could Linger for Years Along Gulf Coast Obama administration officials were grilled during five separate congressional hearings over the consequences of the oil spill and the ongoing cleanup efforts. Jim Lehrer gets two points of view, from Florida's Sen. Bill Nelson and Wyoming's Sen. John Barrasso.

	June 9, 2010 BP Increases Estimate of Oil Captured From Leaking Well BP said it has pumped another 630,000 gallons of oil from the damaged well, as the U.S. government prepares to release new estimates of the amount of oil flowing into the in the Gulf of Mexico. Jim Lehrer reports on the ongoing efforts to cap and capture the oil.

	June 9, 2010 On the Gulf Coast, Media Access Can Be Hard to Come By I recently returned to my home base of San Francisco from Louisiana after a week covering the oil spill for the NewsHour. It was a fascinating and frustrating week. But trying to find out what was going on was sometimes impossible.

	June 9, 2010 Containment Cap Collects Slightly More Oil; BP Looks to Boost Capacity BP's oil containment system captured about 15,000 barrels (630,000 gallons) of oil Tuesday, up slightly from the 14,800 barrels collected Monday, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news briefing Wednesday. We've again updated our oil ticker to reflect the change.

	June 9, 2010 Wednesday: Slew of November Races Set; Adm. Allen Criticizes BP Response Pundits and voters alike are poring over the results of party primaries and runoffs in 12 states Tuesday, the busiest day yet in this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections.

	June 8, 2010 Explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau Probes Depths of Oil Spill's Impact As the environmental impacts of the BP oil leak unfold in the Gulf of Mexico, Jeffrey Brown talks to ocean explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau about conservation and his team's dives into the spill.

	June 8, 2010 Environmental Lawyers Weigh BP's Liability in Leak Fifty days into the Gulf oil spill, officials still don't have a firm answer on how much oil is escaping from the damaged well or how long it could continue. Jim Lehrer talks to two environmental law professors about the legal ramifications of the spill for BP.

	June 8, 2010 NOAA Confirms Presence of Subsea Oil Plumes in Gulf The federal government confirmed Tuesday that sub-sea clouds of dispersed oil have been found at least 40 miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

	June 8, 2010 Oil-Covered Birds a Vivid Symbol of the Crisis in the Gulf Images of oil-covered birds are among the most vivid symbols of the wildlife damage wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill.

	June 8, 2010 Signs of Higher Flow Rate: BP Captures 14,800 Barrels of Oil BP reported Tuesday that it captured approximately 14,800 barrels of oil Monday from the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, where crude has been flowing since the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22.

	June 8, 2010 Tuesday: Probes Faulted BP Safety Record; U.S. Voters Head to Polls Investigations over the past decade warned BP managers that the company disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked accident if it did not change its ways, according to a report by ProPublica. In other news, 12 states are holding primaries and runoffs Tuesday, the busiest day thus far in this year's elections.

	June 8, 2010 Watch 12 Cameras Live: Gulf Oil Leak Since late April when oil began leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has released 12 different video feeds of the underwater leak. The videos offer not only a live window of the massive leak some 5,000 feet below the Gulf surface, but also a firsthand glimpse into BP's efforts to halt the spill.

	June 7, 2010 Gulf Faces Long Road to Restoration From Oil Spill Federal officials said the amount of oil escaping into the Gulf of Mexico is beginning to slow, but the cleanup and restoration will likely span years. Gwen Ifill talks to two environmental experts about efforts to mitigate the damage.

	June 7, 2010 Oil Spill Liability a Complicated Legal Web As oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank, the amount of legal damages that BP and other companies might owe is an evolving issue before Congress.

	June 7, 2010 Coast Guard's Allen: Government Must Be 'Ruthless' in Oversight of BP Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday at the White House that the government still doesn't know how much oil is leaking from the damaged Gulf well despite the addition of a containment cap last week, but that BP hopes to pump up to 20,000 barrels (840,000 gallons) of oil a day to the surface.

	June 7, 2010 Monday: Obama to Receive Briefing on Spill Progess; Tornadoes Kill 7 in Ohio Despite increased estimates over the weekend for the amount of oil BP is siphoning from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen warned Sunday that the worst oil spill in U.S. history could continue into the fall.

	June 6, 2010 Cap Recovering Around 10,000 Barrels of Oil a Day, Officials Say Updated 2:05pm ETBP increased estimates for the amount of oil being siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, reporting on its website that 10,5000 barrels of oil were recovered by a containment system on Saturday.

	June 5, 2010 Coast Guard's Allen: 6,000 Barrels of Oil Captured on Friday Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters Saturday morning that a containment cap atop the leaking oil well funneled about 6,000 barrels (252,000 gallons) of oil over 24 hours on Friday to a tanker on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Once again, we've updated our oil leak ticker to reflect that news.

	June 4, 2010 In Louisiana, Obama Chides BP Over Shareholder Payments President Obama on Friday criticized BP for spending money on advertising and shareholder dividends even as oil continued to spill from the company's damaged Gulf Coast well.

	June 4, 2010 Drilling Moratorium Could Imperil Louisiana's Expansive Oil Industry In our continuing coverage of the Gulf oil leak, Spencer Michels reports on how the spill may impact Louisiana's lucrative drilling industry as lawmakers impose a moratorium on offshore drilling and vow to ramp up regulation on the industry.

	June 4, 2010 Success of BP's Oil Well Cap Remains Uncertain After BP installed a cap on the head of the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well, Ray Suarez talks to Greg McCormack of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas about whether this week's "cut and cap" attempt will stop the leak.

	June 4, 2010 Obama Surveys Gulf Oil Damage Again as BP Secures Well Cap President Obama returned to the Gulf Coast to survey the environmental damage, as BP said it is making headway in capping the gushing oil well at the bottom of the ocean. Ray Suarez reports on the president's visit and the new containment cap that's reportedly capturing some of the escaping oil.

	June 4, 2010 Patchwork Nation: Views From Baton Rouge on the Oil Leak Of all the startling numbers out of the Gulf oil spill story, the most interesting one may be this: zero. That is the number of calls out of the Louisiana State legislature for any freeze on drilling in the Gulf.

	June 4, 2010 Containment Cap Now Capturing Some Oil From Gulf Leak; Ticker Updated BP announced Friday morning that it had successfully lowered a containment cap over the leaking oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico and was capturing some oil and gas. We've updated our oil leak ticker again to reflect that news.

	June 4, 2010 Friday: Jobless Rate Falls, but Private Hiring Slows; BP Reports Progress Job seekers arrive for the Anaheim/Orange County Job Fair in California earlier this week.

	June 3, 2010 How Far Could the Gulf Oil Slick Spread? As BP attempts to place a containment dome over the leaking oil well, Judy Woodruff talks to two engineering experts about the latest effort to cap the Gulf oil well and concerns over the spread of the larger oil slick.

	June 3, 2010 BP's 'Cut and Cap' Attempt Moves Forward BP made new progress on the Gulf oil spill Thursday as undersea robots managed to cut the main pipe on a damaged wellhead, which may allow engineers to cap the gusher. Judy Woodruff reports on what lies ahead for crews attempting to stop the oil well.

	June 3, 2010 BP Releases Animation of Cap Maneuver What exactly are you watching on those live feeds of robotic arms 5,000 feet underwater? BP just released an animation of its most recent efforts to contain the oil leak: They're attempting to connect the lower marine riser package, or LMRP, cap on the riser and move it in place on the damaged wellhead.

	June 3, 2010 Computer Model Shows Oil Likely to Spread to Atlantic The oil from the BP leak could reach far beyond the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new computer model released Thursday that shows currents could carry some of the slick up the Atlantic coast.

	June 3, 2010 Thursday: BP Says It Was Unprepared for Spill; Flotilla Activists Return Home A contract worker scoops up oil that washed ashore Wednesday on a public beach in Dauphin Island, Alabama.

	June 2, 2010 Louisiana's Oyster Industry Crippled by Oil Spill As part of continuing coverage of the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, Spencer Michels reports on how one Louisiana parish is coping with the oil spill and the growing threat to its oyster industry.

	June 2, 2010 BP Setbacks Mount as Cut and Cap Attempt Stalls in Gulf BP's latest attempt to contain the Gulf oil leak stalled Wednesday when a saw became stuck in a pipe on the damaged well. Gwen Ifill talks Jane Lubchenco, the head of NOAA, about what the setbacks mean for stopping the flow.

	June 2, 2010 Relief Wells Will Work, Experts Say, but Will Take Time, Trial and Error Even as attention has focused this week on BP's latest attempt to temporarily contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, work continues on what the company and experts say will most likely be the permanent fix -- two relief wells that should be ready in August.

	June 2, 2010 Jean-Michel Cousteau: Use of Oil Dispersants in Gulf 'A Mistake' The Rundown caught up with ocean explorer and occasional PBS host Jean-Michel Cousteau to chat about what his team discovered on dives last week into the Gulf of Mexico oil leak.

	June 2, 2010 Wednesday: Oil Spill Nearing Florida Coast; Japan's Prime Minister Resigns In this May 31 photo from NASA, the oil slick is seen off the coast of Louisiana with a portion flowing south from the accident site.

	June 1, 2010 BP Faces Big Losses as Gulf Oil Disaster Worsens BP's stock value sunk Tuesday, following the failure of the "top kill" procedure to halt the oil leak over the weekend. Jim Lehrer talks to an energy consultant and management expert about BP's financial prospects as the crisis drags on.

	June 1, 2010 Along Gulf Coast, BP's Latest Oil Spill Efforts Do Little to Calm Anger Spencer Michels reports from the Gulf Coast with the latest on BP's efforts to cap the gushing oil well, amid growing anger from local residents and business owners over the problems wrought by the spill.

	June 1, 2010 Holder: Federal Criminal, Civil Probes Launched Over Oil Leak, Rig Blast Federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the massive Gulf Coast oil leak and the deadly rig explosion that caused it, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday afternoon.

	June 1, 2010 How Economics Affect the Oil Spill Blame Game The underwater gusher in the Gulf has critics pointing fingers every which way. As with so many disasters, there's surely blame enough to feed multitudes; a cast of would-be culprits worthy of the Orient Express. Yet larger laws of economics are also at work.



	MAY May 31, 2010 Oil Leak Drama Draws Public Outrage, Outpouring of Ideas As the Gulf oil leak persists, more than 80 percent of Americans report they are closely following the unfolding crisis. Margaret Warner talks to science educator Bill Nye, energy expert Amy Jaffe and technology forecaster Paul Saffo for more on the public reaction.

	May 31, 2010 BP Readies New Strategy for Stopping Oil Leak Following the failure of the 'top kill' procedure, BP prepared to attempt to slice off a piece of the leaking pipe to cap the blown-out oil well in the Gulf. Margaret Warner gives an update on the ongoing environmental crisis.

	May 29, 2010 BP's Suttles: 'Top Kill' Effort Hasn't Stopped Oil; Leak Meter Restarted On Friday, we paused our Gulf leak oil meters based Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen's comments that the flow had at least been temporarily halted. Given comments by a BP official on Saturday, we are restarting both of our Gulf leak oil meters, which calculate how much oil may be spilling underwater based on a range of estimates.

	May 29, 2010 Dock Workers in La. Wonder When the Next Shrimp Catch Will Come Friday morning we watched what is likely the last catch of shrimp from Louisiana's Barataria Bay for the foreseeable future being unloaded.

	May 28, 2010 Shields and Brooks Assess President Obama's Response to Oil Leak Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the Rundown Friday before their discussion with Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour broadcast.

	May 28, 2010 Amount of Leaking Oil May Still Exceed Federal Estimates, Scientists Say The amount of oil that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month may be significantly higher than the preliminary estimate released Thursday by a federal panel, some scientists on the panel told the PBS NewsHour Friday.

	May 28, 2010 Evaluating Gulf Coast Damage from Worst Spill in U.S. History Federal scientists have released a report estimating the Gulf oil spill has surpassed the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, making it the worst in U.S. history. Jeffrey Brown speaks to a chemical oceanographer about the scope of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 28, 2010 Gulf Coast Industries Reel From Ongoing Oil Crisis Tom Bearden reports from Jefferson Parish, La., on how residents and business owners impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill view the government's response to the disaster.

	May 28, 2010 Obama Surveys Gulf Damage as BP Continues Attempts to Plug Oil Leak President Obama traveled to the Gulf for a first-hand look at the damage from the blown out oil well, as efforts continue to plug the leak. Ray Suarez reports on the growing environmental catastrophe.

	May 28, 2010 Behind the Special 'Drilling Mud' That Helps Clog the Oil Leak The key to stemming the stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico may be as clear as mud.

	May 28, 2010 Obama Tells Gulf Residents That "Buck Stops With Me" President Barack Obama said Friday that the U.S. government is doing everything it can to permanently stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and to mitigate the damage done to the local ecosystem and economy.

	May 28, 2010 '17th Century Recycling' Made into Art In his backyard in Denver, Ray Tomasso calls paper making 17th-century-style recycling. His workshop is filled with boxes of old cotton rags, blue jeans, rag board and scraps of paper -- the perfect material for his art.

	May 28, 2010 Sick Fishermen Spark Worries About Health Effects of Oil, Chemicals Reports of fisherman who had been hired to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico falling ill have raised concerns about the health effects of the stew of oil and chemicals in the area.

	May 28, 2010 Adm. Allen: Gulf Oil Leak Suppressed For Now; Leak Meter Paused As of 8 a.m. Friday, we've frozen our Gulf Leak Meter, based on reports that the flow of oil is being held back.

	May 28, 2010 Friday: Admiral Says Leak Is Stemmed; House Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' A shrimp boat outfitted with oil booms makes its way to port Thursday near Grand Isle, Louisiana.

	May 27, 2010 Gov 2.0: Exploring Data With Google's Crisis Response Team Technology lovers and data geeks from all over the country gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Gov 2.0 conference. We spoke with Google's Natasha Wyatt about innovations that Google's Crisis Response team has brought to the table.

	May 27, 2010 BP Remains Optimistic 'Top Kill' Will Seal Oil Leak Reports that more oil than originally thought is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico were tempered by early successes in the 'top kill' procedure to stop the leak at its source. Tom Bearden continues to track the progress of the spill with a team of researchers in Louisiana.

	May 27, 2010 Gulf Spill Surpasses Exxon Valdez Spill as Worst in U.S. History President Obama called the Gulf Coast spill an "unprecedented disaster" as estimates for the leaking oil surpassed the Exxon Valdez spill, making it the worst oil eco-disaster in U.S. history. Judy Woodruff gets two points of view on the scale of the disaster and the adequacy of the response.

	May 27, 2010 Obama Extends Drilling Moratorium, Defends Administration's Spill Response President Obama announced plans to curb offshore drilling in response to the Gulf oil spill and said BP will be held responsible for the spill. Ray Suarez has an update on the ongoing Gulf disaster.

	May 27, 2010 Viewers Answer YouTube Call for Oil Spill Suggestions On Tuesday, we put out a YouTube call for viewers to submit suggestions for how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. More than 7,000 people offered suggestions and more than 100,000 votes were cast. We've posted some suggestions and asked an expert for his take.

	May 27, 2010 Liveblogging Oil Leak Developments: Spill Now Worst in U.S. History President Obama is expected to announce Thursday a 6-month moratorium on drilling for new deepwater oil wells. We're covering Thursday's developments regarding the oil spill, which scientists are now calling the worst in American history.

	May 27, 2010 Out on the Gulf, Oil You Can See, Smell, Taste in the Back of Your Mouth That giant oil slick bobbing atop of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico is just plain nasty. As Ed Overton put it, you can see it, smell it, and taste it in the back of your mouth.

	May 27, 2010 Thursday: Gulf Region Awaits Word on Top Kill; Obama Issues Security Strategy Oil settles in the marsh area of Blind Bay, Louisiana.

	May 26, 2010 Crews Scramble to Protect Louisiana Wildlife from Oil Leakage As BP engineers continue attempts to stem the Gulf oil leak, Tom Bearden reports on the implications for the wildlife along Louisiana's fragile coast and the attempts to protect the ecosystem from heavier oil.

	May 26, 2010 BP Moves Ahead with Tricky 'Top Kill' Procedure to Stop Oil Leak BP crews launched a long-awaited operation to stop spewing oil at the source by pumping heavy drilling fluids into the massive leak. . Jim Lehrer talks to Greg McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas, for more on the procedure and the chances for success.

	May 26, 2010 Watch Animation of the Oil Leak Top Kill Technique Deepwater Horizon Unified Command has released this animation of the top kill technique that BP will begin Wednesday.

	May 26, 2010 Memo Suggests Warning Signs Were Ignored Ahead of Rig Explosion A House panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico says that during the hours that led up to the rig explosion, there were a series of missed and ignored warning signs that signaled significant problems with the well.

	May 26, 2010 Wednesday: BP Prepares to Plug Leak; Clinton Calls for Response to N. Korea Bags of oil collected from the beach await pickup Tuesday at Elmer's Island, Louisiana.

	May 25, 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Leak: What Are Your Suggestions? As the Gulf Coast oil leak continues, we want to hear your thoughts on the best way to stop the spill and also how to clean up the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 25, 2010 BP Official Outlines Best, Worst Case Scenarios for Stopping Oil As BP faces increasing pressure from lawmakers over the ongoing Gulf Coast oil spill, Judy Woodruff talks to Managing Director Robert Dudley about the company's next moves to cap the leak and clean up the contamination.

	May 25, 2010 Heavier Oil Flow Threatens Louisiana's Sensitive Barrier Islands Oil from the Gulf of Mexico leak turned darker on Tuesday, suggesting that heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana, where the oil has begun to damage delicate barrier island ecosystems.

	May 25, 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak: A Month in Photos More than one month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to spew into the ocean from a pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface. Meanwhile, containment and cleanup efforts continue on the ocean's surface and on land.

	May 25, 2010 Tuesday: BP Set to Try Capping Leak; 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Deal Struck Residents of Chalmette, Louisiana, attend a discussion Monday with parish officials and a BP representative on the oil spill clean up efforts.

	May 24, 2010 Coast Guard's Allen Outlines Roles of BP, Government in Gulf Oil Cleanup As the Gulf oil leak continues, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, for the latest on the spreading contamination and what the government and BP are doing to contain and halt the leak.

	May 24, 2010 Feds Pressure BP to Intensify Efforts to Stem Gulf Coast Oil Leak Obama administration officials and senators reiterated Monday that they will hold BP responsible for cleaning up the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, as heavy oil continues to seep into fragile marshland along the coast. Correspondent Tom Bearden gives an update from Louisiana on the damage.

	May 24, 2010 Response to Oil Spill Comes Under Renewed Criticism The response to the Gulf Coast oil spill came under additional criticism Monday as crude pushed further inside Louisiana's fragile marshland and BP announced it was delaying its next attempt to plug the leak.

	May 24, 2010 Monday: Frustration at BP Growing; South Korea Cuts Off Trade With North A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday.

	May 21, 2010 Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features 'Spillcam' BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico in the Deepwater Horizon accident is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. As scientists and officials work to reassess estimates on the amount of oil leaking into the Gulf, we have modified our original Gulf leak widget to include the video stream.

	May 21, 2010 News Wrap: Oil Leak Will Continue Through Tuesday, BP Says In other news Friday, more oil coated the Louisiana coastline as BP reported a sharp decline in its oil capture rate, and a car bomb killed 23 people and wounded more than 50 in a Shiite town north of Baghdad.

	May 21, 2010 Government, BP to Revise Estimated Rate of Oil Leak Questions continued to swirl Friday over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday that a new "flow rate technical team" comprised of outside experts and multiple government agencies would begin work on a new estimate of the leak's magnitude.

	May 21, 2010 Live Video of Gulf Oil Leak Back Online Early Friday morning, BP published these two video streams online of the Gulf oil leak.

	May 20, 2010 Video: Live Feed of Oil Leak Released, BP Raises Siphoning Estimate With oil now washing ashore along Louisiana's fragile coastline, BP reported Thursday it is now siphoning more than 200,000 gallons of oil per day from the leak site in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 20, 2010 Thursday: South Korea Accuses North of Attacking Ship; Oil Reaches Marshlands An international civilian-military investigation team said Thursday that evidence overwhelmingly proves a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that sank a South Korean naval warship on March 26, killing 46 sailors in the country's worst military disaster since the Korean War.

	May 19, 2010 BP Official: Leaking Gulf Oil Well to Be Shut 'Hopefully Within a Week' In a newsmaker interview, Jeffrey Brown talks to BP Managing Director Robert Dudley about the gulf oil leak, as lawmakers point blame at the company, nearly a month after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 19, 2010 U.S. in Talks with Cuba Over Containing Oil Leak The State Department engaged in rare talks with the Cuban government, amid fears that strong currents could carry the spreading oil slick eastward. Jeffrey Brown reports on the ongoing attempts to capture oil flowing from the sunken rig.

	May 19, 2010 News Wrap: U.S. Contractor Killed in NATO Base Attack in Afghanistan In other news Wednesday, Taliban militants attacked one of NATO's largest military bases in Afghanistan, killing a U.S. contractor and democrats in the Senate fell short in a bid to push financial reform to a final vote.

	May 19, 2010 U.S. Scientists Recommend Setting 'Carbon Budget' A panel of the nation's leading scientists on Wednesday called for more research on climate change and more action to mitigate its effects, including setting a national "budget" to limit carbon emissions.

	May 18, 2010 Tar Balls Raise Concerns for Florida Coastline, Atlantic Ocean Marine Scientists said sections of the giant Gulf oil spill are nearing the loop current, which could carry the contamination around the tip of Florida and deeper into the Atlantic Ocean. Ray Suarez talks to a Wall Street Journal reporter about the environmental and economic implications.

	May 18, 2010 Fisheries Hit by Spreading Oil Contamination Closures in Gulf Federal officials nearly doubled the no-fishing zone in the Gulf of Mexico, as administration officials faced sharp criticism from lawmakers. Ray Suarez reports on the ongoing fallout from the gulf oil spill.

	May 17, 2010 News Wrap: General Motors Back in the Black Following Bankruptcy In other news Monday, General Motors posted its first quarterly profit in nearly three years, thanks to strong sales of new models and expense cuts from its bankruptcy. And in Thailand, resistance leaders and security forces remain in a standoff after five days of violent clashes.

	May 17, 2010 NOAA's Lubchenco: Understanding Oil Leak's Consequences in 'Early Stages' Researchers working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have reported finding gigantic sub-surface plumes of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Gwen Ifill talks to Jane Lubchenco, head of the NOAA, about the the growing environmental concerns from the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 17, 2010 How Much Difference Do 1,000 Barrels a Day Make for Containment Efforts? With BP reporting some success in siphoning off oil leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon well, we've updated our Gulf Leak Meter to reflect a slightly slowed rate of leakage.

	May 17, 2010 BP Makes Headway in Capturing Leaking Oil BP officials said the company is using a new siphoning strategy and capturing more than 1,000 barrels of the oil that would have otherwise leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, but scientists are voicing new worries about the leak's environmental implications. Gwen Ifill reports.

	May 17, 2010 Monday: BP Begins Siphoning Oil From Leak; Iran Strikes Deal to Ship Uranium BP took a significant step forward Sunday in the effort to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, connecting a mile-long tube from a ship to the damaged pipeline some 5,000 feet below water.

	May 14, 2010 Obama Wants Reform on 'Cozy Relationship' Between Oil Companies, Regulators President Obama called for an overhaul of how the government handles oil drilling approval, as estimates of the gulf oil leak's magnitude continue to climb. Jeffrey Brown talks to U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen about the ongoing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 14, 2010 Extent of Oil Spill Remains Unclear Nearly a month after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, one question remains unanswered: Exactly how much oil is spilling into the Gulf from the unchecked leak?

	May 14, 2010 Obama Rips Oil Industry Executives for 'Ridiculous Spectacle' on Capitol Hill President Obama on Friday castigated oil industry executives for failing to take responsibility for the Gulf Coast oil spill, blasting officials for pointing fingers of blame during Congressional hearings into the accident this week.

	May 14, 2010 NewsHour Connect: Economic Impacts of the Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast Beyond the environmental effects of the gulf oil spill disaster, there are several economic ones washing ashore.

	May 14, 2010 Report: Oil Spill Larger Than Thought; Pakistan Arrests N.Y. Bomb Suspect When the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last month, officials first estimated that it was leaking oil at a rate of 1,000 barrels a day. That figure was later revised to 5,000 barrels per day. Multiple reports out Friday, however, show the spill may be much, much worse.

	May 13, 2010 News Wrap: BP Unveils New Approach in Attempt to Siphon Leaking Oil In other news Thursday, BP announced it will attempt to use a smaller pipe to siphon leaking oil to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and a new report shows that the number of American households facing foreclosure is down 2 percent from a year ago, signaling signs of possible economic recovery.

	May 13, 2010 Thursday: BP Says Leak Fix Is Close; Obama Takes Tour to Buffalo Officials from BP said Wednesday they may be closer to stopping the underwater oil leak that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a month.

	May 12, 2010 New Video, Images Show Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak in Dismal Detail British Petroleum has released new video and images of one of the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 12, 2010 World's 'Better City' Wonders on Display at Shanghai Expo As China kicks off its five-month World Expo festivities in Shanghai, Jeffrey Brown talks to Ray Suarez about what is on displayed in the international pavilions at the largest, most expensive World's Fair in history.

	May 12, 2010 Investigators: Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Failed Key Tests Ahead of Explosion Tom Bearden continues his reporting from the Gulf of Mexico with an update on hearings into the massive oil spill, as investigators testified that the Deepwater Horizons oil well failed a key pressure test just hours before the explosion.

	May 12, 2010 Lieberman, Kerry Unveil Climate Bill Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Kerry unveiled a much-anticipated energy and climate bill Wednesday, aimed at reducing carbon emissions and encouraging the development of clean energy sources.

	May 12, 2010 White House Seeks to Raise Oil Companies' Liability Cap With costs mounting in the effort to contain the Gulf Coast oil leak, the Obama administration said Wednesday it will move to raise the cap on damages that the government can collect from oil companies during a spill.

	May 11, 2010 Tight Security at Oil Spill Hearing in New Orleans The U.S. Coast Guard and the federal Minerals Management Service staged the first of two public hearings at the Radisson airport hotel in New Orleans Tuesday, as part of a joint investigation into the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last month.

	May 11, 2010 Oil Executives Under Fire in Congressional Gulf Leak Probe Oil company executives traded blame for last month's explosion at an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico at hearings in Washington and Louisiana. Gwen Ifill talks to a Wall Street Journal reporter for more on the investigation into the environmental disaster.

	May 11, 2010 Trying to Strike a Chord with Fans, One Recycling Bin at a Time On Earth Day, Art Beat profiled two companies who are almost as devoted to environmentalism as they are to producing and playing music. Here are two more groups who have changed their operations to be more green while encouraging others to follow suit.

	May 11, 2010 Tuesday: Oil Rig Companies to Face Questioning; Karzai Visits White House Two oil booms surround one of the New Harbor Islands in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 10, 2010 Exclusive: Deepwater Horizon Worker Details Survival, Pending Legal Battle In an exclusive interview with the PBS NewsHour and NPR, oil rig worker Christopher Choy tells his harrowing story of survival aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the legal tangles he has run into since the blast.

	May 10, 2010 Monday: Obama to Pick Kagan for Supreme Court; Setbacks in Gulf Spill Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center.

	May 10, 2010 Exclusive: Oil Rig Worker Shares Tale of Survival, Fear, Legal Tangles Oil rig survivor Christopher Choy recently shared his story with the NewsHour and NPR.

	May 9, 2010 Dispatch From Alabama: Watching, Waiting for Impact of Oil Spill Correspondent Tom Bearden has been reporting from Louisiana and Alabama on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown.

	May 7, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Prospects for an Energy Bill and Keeping the Lights On With plenty happening in Washington and beyond this week, Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by the Rundown Friday to discuss how the chances for passage on climate legislation are shifting and the political fallout from the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

	May 6, 2010 In Gulf of Mexico, Oil Containment Device Poised to Help Slow Leak NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden gives an update from Louisiana, as BP engineers prepare to lower a massive containment dome over into the Gulf of Mexico in hopes of capturing much of the massive oil leak.

	May 6, 2010 Interactive: How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico? Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month's oil rig explosion. What we do have are estimates -- from NOAA, BP and others. Use our interactive meter to explore ballpark figures of how much oil may have leaked into the Gulf based on each scenario.

	May 5, 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill Adds 'Insult to Injuries' for Ocean's Health Cleanup and wildlife rescue operations are underway on the shore as the massive oil leak spreads toward sensitive coastal wetlands along the Gulf Coast. Judy Woodruff speaks with Sylvia Earle, National Geographic's explorer-in-residence, about the disaster's effects on the fragile marine ecosystem.

	May 5, 2010 Gulf Cleanup Continues as BP Attempts to Cap Largest Oil Leak Tom Bearden continues his reports from the Gulf Coast with an update on BP's attempt to cap the biggest leak at the wellhead. Judy Woodruff talks to him about progress to contain further spread of oil contamination.

	May 5, 2010 Dispatch From Louisiana: The Brown Pelican and Media Etiquette The Fort Jackson bird rescue facility near Venice, La., has another patient -- an oil-soaked Louisiana brown pelican. Correspondent Tom Bearden continues his coverage from the Gulf Coast with a report on the pelican's "surprisingly long and rigorous bath," and the sometimes cutthroat world of media gaggles.

	May 4, 2010 Calm Seas, Winds Permit Some Progress in Gulf Oil Leak Cleanup Crews made some headway in dispersing millions of gallons of leaked oil as seas and winds calmed in the Gulf of Mexico. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana on the challenges still ahead for containing and cleaning up the spill, then Judy Woodruff gets two views on why the spill is so tough to contain and mitigate.

	May 4, 2010 The Gulf Coast Oil Spill: How Does It Compare to Exxon Valdez? So how bad will the Deepwater Horizon oil spill turn out to be? The president of the National Wildlife Federation, Larry Schweiger, told us it has the potential to be the "worst ecological disaster in U.S. history," dwarfing the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989.

	May 3, 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill Puts Political Future of Offshore Drilling in Question As crews continue attempts to cap a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Judy Woodruff gets two points of view on the future for offshore drilling in the U.S. from Kert Davies of Greenpeace and Sara Banaszak of the American Petroleum Institute.

	May 3, 2010 BP Says It Will Pay for Gulf Coast Oil Spill Cleanup Energy company BP said it will pay to clean up the oil spill still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico, caused when an oil rig it leased exploded two weeks ago. Judy Woodruff gets the latest on the crisis from correspondent Tom Bearden in Louisiana.

	May 3, 2010 In Louisiana, Local Fishermen Tapped to Help Oil Spill Cleanup Effort Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown.

	May 3, 2010 Monday: Workers Try to Contain Spill; NYPD Releases Video of Bomb Suspect Eddie Soto, working with Resolve Marine Group, carries oil containment booms Sunday to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.

	May 3, 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Facts and Figures Oil has been bubbling up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico since the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire on April 20 and sank two days later. Here are some figures to put the spill in context.

	May 2, 2010 Dispatch From Louisiana: One Bird Covered in Oil, Many Cameras Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown.

	May 1, 2010 Dispatch from Louisiana: Fishermen Voice Their Frustrations on Oil Spill Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown on Saturday.



	APRIL April 30, 2010 Disaster Imminent for Sensitive Gulf Coast Ecosystems, Industries As high winds and waves push oil towards the shores of several states, Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert Twilley, professor of oceanography and coastal science at Louisiana State University about efforts to mitigate the environmental damage.

	April 30, 2010 Coast Guard Chief: Mother Nature Complicating Gulf Cleanup As cleanup efforts intensified in the Gulf, the White House suspended its plans to authorize new offshore drilling. Jeffrey Brown talks to Admiral Thad Allen, the head of the Coast Guard, about where efforts stand to stop more oil from leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.

	April 30, 2010 Gulf States Brace as Oil Slick Reaches Fragile Coastal Wetlands High winds and waves pushed oil from the massive slick in the Gulf of Mexico ashore in Louisiana, threatening sensitive coastal wildlife and commercial fisheries. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana on efforts to mitigate the environmental damage.

	April 30, 2010 Louisiana Dispatch: Bracing for the Spill Correspondent Tom Bearden is reporting from Louisiana on the impact of the Gulf oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown.

	April 30, 2010 Friday: Traces of Oil Reach Coast; Economy Grows 3.2 Percent Communities along Louisiana's coast are bracing as oil from a vast spill in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to reach land Friday.

	April 29, 2010 Coast Guard: Oil Cleanup is 'Team Effort' Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday as the oil slick came within miles of sensitive coastline. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Coast Guard Rear Adm. Sally Brice O'Hara about efforts to contain the leak and who's running the cleanup efforts.

	April 29, 2010 Costs Climb as BP Struggles to Contain Oil Spill The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening sensitive coastline and commercial fisheries, following last week's explosion at an offshore oil rig. Jeffrey Brown talks to a BP spokeswoman about the implications of the spill for the company and for offshore drilling.

	April 29, 2010 Louisiana Declares State of Emergency as Oil Spill Nears Shore Crews in the Gulf of Mexico continued attempts to contain a massive oil slick, now faster than previously believed. Jeffrey Brown talks to correspondent Tom Bearden in Louisiana about efforts to protect the shore from contamination.

	April 29, 2010 White House Promises Aggressive Response to Gulf Oil Spill A boat makes its way through a vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28.

	April 29, 2010 Thursday: Gulf Oil Spill Larger Than Thought; Senate to Debate Finance Bill If new estimates are correct, the effort to contain a vast oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just got a lot tougher.

	April 28, 2010 Off-Shore Wind Farm Gets Green Light in Massachusetts The Obama administration has approved plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm near the coast of Massachusetts' Cape Cod. Gwen Ifill reports about the alternative energy deal, nine years in the making.

	April 28, 2010 The Burning Question in Cleaning Up an Oil Spill Since the explosion and destruction of the Deep Horizon oil rig last week in the Gulf Coast off Louisiana, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil have continued bubbling up from the ocean floor.

	April 28, 2010 Gulf Oil Burn Begins as Leak Creeps Toward Louisiana Coast Crews in the Gulf of Mexico began to burn parts of an oil slick from last week's rig explosion that is now threatening the coastline. Judy Woodruff talks to two experts about the challenges of stopping the leak and getting rid of the oil spill.

	April 28, 2010 After Nine-Year Fight, Government Approves Cape Cod Wind Farm On a day when much attention is centered on an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. took steps toward an entirely different alternative on the energy front. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that the federal government would approve construction of a 130-turbine wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod.

	April 26, 2010 Crews Race to Contain Spreading Oil Spill Robotic submarines and hundreds of workers are struggling to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, stemming from last week's rig fire off the Louisiana coast. Judy Woodruff talks to David Kennedy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about the spill's environmental effects and cleanup effort.

	April 26, 2010 Monday: Financial Reform Faces Key Vote; Gulf Oil Leak Could Last Months Still lacking a bipartisan agreement on financial reform, the Senate is bracing for a crucial test vote Monday over whether to begin debate on Democratic legislation to toughen the rules on Wall Street.

	April 23, 2010 Friday: Greece Formally Requests IMF-EU Bailout; Oil Rig Sinks in Gulf A poster next to a National Bank of Greece calls for civil servants to strike against austerity cuts.

	April 22, 2010 Two Companies Make It Easy Being Green For Earth Day, we take a look at two companies in the music industry that have made environmentally-friendly practices a priority.

	April 22, 2010 Earth Day's 40th Anniversary Marked with Concerts, Idea Exchanges Countries around the world celebrated the 40th Earth Day on Thursday and throughout the week with activities such as fashion shows featuring recycled materials, seed plantings at the Shanghai Zoo and musicians in Morocco playing songs about the Earth.

	April 21, 2010 'Plastiki' Sets Sail to Raise Awareness of Ocean Pollution On March 20 the Plastiki, a 60-foot-long catamaran made entirely of recycled plastic, set sail from San Francisco bound for Sydney, Australia.

	April 19, 2010 American Experience Looks at History and Future of 'Earth Days' On April 22, 1970, Americans celebrated the first Earth Day. The nationwide day of celebrations and demonstrations marked the beginning of a decade of environmental action, including such landmark legislation as the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act.

	April 16, 2010 Meteorologist on Ash and Airplane Risk The Icelandic volcano, located under a glacier, is spewing water vapor and fine-grained ash that can be damaging to aircraft engines. A meteorologist explains the challenges of measuring the size of the plume, where it is headed and how much of a risk it poses.

	April 1, 2010 New Auto Emissions, Fuel Efficency Standards Set The federal government on Thursday rolled out the final plan for the nation's first vehicle emission and fuel efficiency standards.



	MARCH March 31, 2010 Obama Eyes Energy Development in Drilling Plan; Opponents Point to Alternatives Jeffrey Brown gets two views on how President Obama's new plan for coastal oil and gas drilling could affect U.S. energy policy and the environment from Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin.

	March 31, 2010 Obama Proposes Lifting Coastal U.S. Drilling Bans President Obama announced plans to lift the ban on offshore oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic and Alaskan coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico. Kwame Holman reports on the reaction to the president's proposal in Washington.

	March 31, 2010 Offshore Drilling Advocates, Opponents Respond to Obama's New Policy Environmental groups had a range of reactions to President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he would lift a longstanding moratorium on new offshore oil drilling along parts of the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and northern Alaska. Most groups expressed concern, but some applauded or tepidly endorsed aspects of the new policy.

	March 31, 2010 Obama to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling President Obama on Wednesday announced a plan to expand offshore oil and gas drilling to parts of the mid-Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and northern Alaska. The new rules would end a longstanding moratorium on drilling along much of the East coast, from Delaware to Florida.

	March 31, 2010 Wednesday: Obama to Open Areas for Offshore Drilling; 12 Killed in Russia President Barack Obama on Wednesday will propose lifting a long-standing ban on some offshore oil and natural gas drilling, a move that would open parts of the Atlantic coastline, the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's north coast to exploration.

	March 23, 2010 Spotz Rows Into History, Raises Thousands for Clean Water Projects Seventy days, five hours and 22 minutes. That's how long it took 22-year-old Katie Spotz to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a high-tech rowboat -- part of a fund-raising effort that also set a new record. Fresh off her 2,817-mile trek, Spotz recently talked to the Rundown about her history-making voyage.

	March 18, 2010 In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points affects millions of people every day.

	March 18, 2010 Clean Water's Ripple Effects in Other Lands Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the Rundown to talk about the reporting he's recently done on water issues in Ethiopia -- including the steps one village is taking to address them in a country where perhaps three-quarters of the population does not have access to clean drinking water.

	March 10, 2010 Criticism of Climate Change Science Heats Up The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	March 8, 2010 Director of 'The Cove,' Named Best Documentary, Puts Oscar in Perspective A wave of new attention is likely to fall on a remote fishing village in Japan after director Louie Psihoyos won the best feature documentary prize for "The Cove" at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday.

	March 2, 2010 Winter Slams Mongolia's Herding Families More than 2.7 million livestock have died in what observers are calling the harshest winter Mongolia has faced in nearly a decade. A natural disaster, known locally as a "dzud," has dealt a financial blow to many herding families.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 25, 2010 U.S.-Canadian Economic Ties Weigh In to Climate Change Debate As part of a continuing series of conversations about climate change legislation, Judy Woodruff recently talked with Brad Wall, premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

	Feb. 18, 2010 Thursday's Headlines: U.N. Climate Chief Resigns; Dalai Lama Visits White House Two months after world leaders failed to agree on a legally binding global warming pact at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Yvo de Boer, the top U.N. climate change official, has announced his resignation.

	Feb. 17, 2010 Reactor Plan Renews Debate on Nuclear Energy President Obama this week announced $8.3 billion in federal loan guarantees to help build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, but environmental groups pushed back against the form of alternative energy they called "inherently dangerous." Gwen Ifill talks to both nuclear and environmental advocates.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Top Republican on House Energy Committee: CO2 Is Not a Pollutant As part of a series of conversations on President Obama's energy agenda and the climate change legislation circulating in Congress, I spoke this week from an opponent of the House bill that would set a cap on carbon emissions.



	JANUARY Jan. 26, 2010 Business, Environmental Coalition Among Players Pushing for Climate Change Bill We're starting a series of conversations here on the Rundown about where climate change legislation stands in Congress. Among the players: A large consortium of American corporations and environmental groups, who are pushing Congress to adapt new laws to regulate carbon emissions and to encourage new energy policies.

	Jan. 25, 2010 Carp Invade, Threaten Great Lakes' Ecosystem Tom Bearden looks at how some Midwestern states are battling the threat of carp overpopulation, which is damaging the Great Lakes' fragile ecosystem.

	Jan. 7, 2010 EPA Proposes Stricter Smog Limits The Environmental Protection Agency proposed stricter new limits on smog Thursday that could have big health benefits, but could also cost up to $90 billion for corporations and the government to implement.