Jun 15 Watch 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. Continue watching
Jun 14 NOAA Launches 'One Stop Shop' for Oil Spill Data By Chris Amico 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… Continue reading
Jun 14 Obama: 'Things Are Going to Return to Normal' for Gulf Region Workers clean oil off the beach in Grand Isle, La. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Updated 4:51 p.m. ET | President Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone over the ongoing oil disaster Monday afternoon, saying that "things are going to… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch 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. Continue watching
Jun 14 Watch Pentagon: Afghanistan Could Hold $1 Trillion in Valuable Minerals A U.S. geologic survey has uncovered at least $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan. Margaret Warner talks to a reporter on what the valuable natural resources could mean for the Afghan economy and the ongoing war with the… Continue watching
Jun 14 Watch 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… Continue watching
Jun 14 Watch 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… Continue watching
Jun 11 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… Continue reading
Jun 11 Conversation: Jean-Michel Cousteau By Tom LeGro Jean-Michel Cousteau recently went to the Gulf of Mexico with a team of divers to examine the damage being caused by the BP oil spill disaster. He's the son of the late Jacques Cousteau and the author of a new… Continue reading
Jun 11 Friday: Obama Administration Requests White House Meeting With BP Execs Updated at 2 p.m. ET In a press conference Friday, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said that BP will seek to nearly double its oil-collecting ability by mid-July. On questions around the newly revised estimates on the amount of… Continue reading