Science Jul 13 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 --…
Science Jul 12 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. That new dome could let BP…
Science Jul 09 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. According to The Washington Post: The company plans to change…
Politics Jul 08 How Candid Was Kagan? Depends Who’s Asking, Analysts Say To Sen. Patrick Leahy, Solicitor General Elena Kagan was "more forthcoming than certainly any nominee that I can recall since I've been in the Senate." But to Sen. Arlen Specter, she was far less candid: "You have followed the…
Science Jul 06 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: In a March report that was not questioned by…
Politics Jul 01 Are Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Getting Longer? Elena Kagan is done with her testimony before the the Senate Judiciary Committee. After three days of long questions and longer statements, the solicitor general can watch the rest of her confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court from…
Politics Jun 28 Watch Kagan Confirmation Hearings Live Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings begin Monday at 12:30 p.m.ET, and with it a week of special coverage from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and SCOTUSBlog. Read Kagan's opening statement. Judy Woodruff and the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle…
Science Jun 23 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. Thad Allen said Wednesday. A second vessel, the Q4000, is still siphoning oil…
Science Jun 18 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: Working together, U.S. government and independent scientists estimate that…
Science Jun 17 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. Energy giant BP PLC said it had burned 52,500 gallons…