Jun 08 Tuesday: Probes Faulted BP Safety Record; U.S. Voters Head to Polls A great blue heron stands on an oil containment boom being used to protect Pensacola Beach, Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Internal investigations over the past decade warned BP managers that the company disregarded safety and environmental rules… Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch News Wrap: Iran Defends Nuclear Fuel Swap as U.N. Prepares for Sanctions Vote In other news Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the international community to support its nuclear fuel swap deal as the U.N. prepares to vote on a new round of sanctions, and voters in more than 10 states headed to… Continue watching
Jun 07 Positive Signs in the Housing Market? Tamp Down That Excitement By Dante Chinni Measuring the health of the U.S. economy continues to be a dodgy game. Witness last week's job numbers that were nowhere as good as many had hoped. But a more complicated measure of improvement may be the U.S. housing… Continue reading
Jun 07 Oil Spill Liability a Complicated Legal Web By Quinn Bowman 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. Continue reading
Jun 07 Coast Guard's Allen: Government Must Be 'Ruthless' in Oversight of BP By News Desk 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… Continue reading
Jun 07 Monday: Obama to Receive Briefing on Spill Progess; Tornadoes Kill 7 in Ohio A bird rescue team captures an oiled pelican for cleaning Sunday on Cat Island in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Despite increased estimates over the weekend for the amount of oil BP… Continue reading
Jun 07 Watch Incumbents Face Fight for Life in Tuesday's Key Primary Races Voters across the country prepare to cast ballots in the biggest day of primary elections, as 10 states host contests on Tuesday. Judy Woodruff talks with Amy Walter of Hotline and Dan Balz of The Washington Post for a preview… Continue watching
Jun 06 Cap Recovering Around 10,000 Barrels of Oil a Day, Officials Say By Talea Miller Updated 5:05pm ET BP increased estimates for the amount of oil being siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, reporting on its website that 10,500 barrels of oil were recovered by a containment system on… Continue reading
Jun 05 Coast Guard's Allen: 6,000 Barrels of Oil Captured on Friday By Dave Gustafson 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… Continue reading
Jun 04 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. The president said that BP should not be "nickel and diming" Gulf… Continue reading