Exclusive coverage from Lisa Desjardins and the politics team
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.
... by pumping heavy drilling fluids into the massive leak. Jim Lehrer talks to Greg McCormack, director of the Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas, for more on the procedure and the chances for success. ENDANGERED WILDLIFE IN COASTAL LOUISIANA | Tom Bearden reports on the implications for the wildlife ...
TOM BEARDEN: In the meantime, at BP's darkened operations center in Houston, Texas, engineers continue trying to guide deep-sea robots to shut off the flow of oil at the wellhead. So far, they have managed to close just one small leak. On the surface, calm seas have allowed ...
... agreed to plead guilty next month to a felony violation of the Clean Air Act for the March 2005 blast at a BP facility in Texas City, Texas, and pay a $50 million fine. The explosion killed 15 refinery workers. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Don ...
... untold damage could have severe long-term effects. A report from the Natural Resources Defense Council said Gulf Coast wetlands, home to commercial fisheries and wildlife, are among Earth's most sensitive ecosystems and oil spilled close to the shore could "linger for decades." "This is probably the single largest ...
... a second blow to the Gulf region on Sept. 24, the president pledged further relief funds for the battered areas of Southwest Louisiana and East Texas. Initial estimates by lawmakers put the total federal cost of hurricane recovery at somewhere between $100 billion and $300 billion, with most settling on ...
... PAGE: If the Democratic Party were alive, they would read the bill of particulars and go right down the list. Arsenic in drinking water, Alaska wildlife preserve, ephedra, polluters now, whether or not you should loosen regulations that requires scrubbers to be installed. There's a consistent pattern. Prescription drugs ...
... color charts might call "rock-a-bye blue" or "bassinet blue," and it was a blue that sent a signal: "I, George Bush, am from Texas. I wear cowboy boots. I wear blue jeans. I talk with a twang. But that doesn't mean I can't be sensitive once ...
... Late Wednesday, the House defeated an amendment that would have blocked oil and gas drilling in a 2,000-acre patch of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, a blow to environmentalists who had lobbied to protect the area. Mr. Bush and Republican leaders argued that searching for oil ...
... federal government to offer tax incentives to encourage new oil and gas drilling; permit oil and gas drilling on federal lands, including the Alaska national wildlife reserve or ANWR [Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]; ease regulations against drilling for oil and gas offshore; ease environmental rules on coal-burning power plants ...
... Oz where Dorothy wakes up and discovers she's not in Kansas anymore. I think someone needs to tell President Bush he's not in Texas anymore. You know, in Texas you may be able to get away with overtly rewarding the oil industry the way that Mr. Bush has ...
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.