May 25 Tuesday: BP Set to Try Capping Leak; ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Deal Struck Residents of Chalmette, Louisiana, attend a discussion Monday with parish officials and a BP representative on the oil spill clean up efforts. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images. The Environmental Protection Agency won't call on BP to stop using chemical… Continue reading
May 25 Watch BP Official Outlines Best, Worst Case Scenarios for Stopping Oil As BP faces increasing pressure from lawmakers over the ongoing Gulf Coast oil spill, Judy Woodruff talks to Managing Director Robert Dudley about the company's next moves to cap the leak and clean up the contamination. Continue watching
May 25 Watch Heavier Oil Flow Threatens Louisiana’s Sensitive Barrier Islands Oil from the Gulf of Mexico leak turned darker on Tuesday, suggesting that heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana, where the oil has begun to damage delicate barrier island ecosystems. Continue watching
May 24 Federal Response to Oil Spill Comes Under Renewed Criticism Updated 4:45 pm ET The Coast Guard admiral coordinating the federal response to the Gulf Coast oil spill said Monday it would not make sense for the government to take over control of the accident from BP. "To push… Continue reading
May 24 NewsHour Plus | This Week In Space: Atlantis, Armstrong, Space X By Hari Sreenivasan Miles O’Brien joins us again on The Rundown to talk about the last mission for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the rarity of Neil Armstrong’s recent public testimony on the direction of the space program’s future, and… Continue reading
May 24 Monday: Frustration at BP Growing; South Korea Cuts Off Trade With North A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Efforts to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took a step backward over the weekend. On… Continue reading
May 24 Watch Coast Guard’s Allen Outlines Roles of BP, Government in Gulf Oil Cleanup As the Gulf oil leak continues, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, for the latest on the spreading contamination and what the government and BP are doing to contain and halt the leak. Continue watching
May 24 Watch Feds Pressure BP to Intensify Efforts to Stem Gulf Coast Oil Leak Obama administration officials and senators reiterated Monday that they will hold BP responsible for cleaning up the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, as heavy oil continues to seep into fragile marshland along the coast. Correspondent Tom Bearden gives… Continue watching
May 21 Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features ‘Spillcam’ By Hari Sreenivasan BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean. Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had… Continue reading
May 21 Government, BP to Revise Estimated Rate of Oil Leak By Lea Winerman Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday that… Continue reading