May 14 Newshour Connect: Economic Impacts of the Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast By Hari Sreenivasan Beyond the environmental effects of the gulf oil spill disaster, there are several economic ones washing ashore. Along the coast of Louisiana thousands of people in the fishing and tourism industries are suffering. Louisiana Public Broadcasting will include… Continue reading
May 14 Report: Oil Spill Larger Than Thought; Pakistan Arrests N.Y. Bomb Suspect Oil spill workers connect sections of oil booms to protect marshlands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. When the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last month, officials first estimated that it… Continue reading
May 14 Watch 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… Continue watching
May 13 Thursday: BP Says Leak Fix Is Close; Obama Takes Tour to Buffalo By Jason Breslow 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. BP officials told the New York Times that engineers have… Continue reading
May 13 Watch 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… Continue watching
May 12 New Video, Images Show Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak in Dismal Detail By Chris Amico British Petroleum has released new video and images of one of the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. We aired a clip on Wednesday's PBS Newshour and our source was this video via the Joint Information Center. Continue reading
May 12 Lieberman, Kerry Unveil Climate Bill Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) unveiled a much-anticipated energy and climate bill Wednesday, aimed at reducing carbon emissions and encouraging the development of clean energy sources. The American Power Act, the Senate version of sweeping legislation… Continue reading
May 12 White House Seeks to Raise Oil Companies’ Liability Cap By Jason Breslow 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. Administration officials… Continue reading
May 12 Genetics and Athletics: Is It in You? By Mike Melia _pap_embed_custom('news01s3f6aqe9c',482,304,""); Great athletes are often referred to as "naturals" in their respective sports, but how much of their talent can be traced back to DNA is still uncertain to scientists. Are there genes that make some of us fantastic sprinters?… Continue reading
May 12 Watch Astronauts Criticize NASA Moon Program Cuts Before Congress Astronaut Neil Armstrong and made a rare public appearance to testify before Congress about the future space exploration. Kwame Holman reports on the divisions about the future of space exploration and plans to scrap NASA's Constellation program. Continue watching