Jun 04 Patchwork Nation: Views From Baton Rouge on the Oil Leak By Dante Chinni 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. Continue reading
Jun 04 Containment Cap Now Capturing Some Oil From Gulf Leak; Ticker Updated By Lea Winerman 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. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told… Continue reading
Jun 04 Friday: Jobless Rate Falls, but Private Hiring Slows; BP Reports Progress By Jason Breslow Job seekers arrive for the Anaheim/Orange County Job Fair in California earlier this week. Photo by Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images. Employers added 431,000 workers to their payrolls in May, the Labor Department said Friday, but the job growth was fueled… Continue reading
Jun 04 Watch 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. Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch 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… Continue watching
Jun 04 Watch 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… Continue watching
Jun 03 BP Releases Animation of Cap Maneuver By Anna Shoup 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… Continue reading
Jun 03 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. The creators of the model,… Continue reading
Jun 03 Thursday: BP Cuts Pipe Before Capping Attempt; Flotilla Activists Return Home A contract worker scoops up oil that washed ashore Wednesday on a public beach in Dauphin Island, Alabama. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Updated 3:00 p.m. ET | The Interior Department says that it has not extended its moratorium… Continue reading
Jun 03 Mars500 Project Will Test Prospects for Human Travel to the Red Planet By Lauren Knapp On Thursday morning, six astronauts will be locked in a 550 cubic-meter windowless complex in Moscow. The mission: to simulate the experience of a real trip to Mars and back. The "voyage" will take 520 days, roughly 12 months longer… Continue reading