Apr 20 Watch 7:25 Five years on, what do we know about BP oil spill damage? By PBS News Hour How is the Gulf Coast coping with the effects of the massive 2010 BP oil spill five years later? Judy Woodruff talks to John Young, president of Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish, and Mark Schleifstein of Nola.com and The Times-Picayune about the… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch 3:38 How the BP oil spill hurt Gulf Coast wildlife and livelihoods By PBS News Hour Five years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 and sending a torrent of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. When it was finally capped, more than 100 million gallons had spilled, resulting in the deaths of… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 5:05 Why open Atlantic offshore drilling now? By PBS News Hour Not even 48 hours since announcing a plan to block drilling in Alaska’s arctic wildlife refuge, the Obama administration rolled out a plan to open up parts of the southern Atlantic coast for oil and gas exploration. While lawmakers from… Continue watching
Nov 19 Watch After Gulf oil spill, filmmaker returns to see what happened when the cameras had gone By PBS News Hour More than four years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, gushing oil into the Gulf Coast for almost three months before it was capped. Despite settlements and clean-up efforts, some communities have never fully recovered. Filmmaker Margaret Brown joins… Continue watching
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Aug 02 Study: ‘Footprint’ of 2010 Gulf Oil Spill may be worse than thought By Xander Landen Penn State researchers recently found two partially dead deep sea coral reefs 22 kilometers east of the site of the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill. Before these findings, biologists only knew of one reef that was damaged by the oil spill. Continue reading
Sep 14 Deepwater Horizon Oil Report Fingers BP’s Safety Lapses By David Coles The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in 2010; Photo by U.S. Coast Guard. A government report out Wednesday finds that British oil giant BP bears the lion's share of blame for the 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch ‘Louisiana Water Stories’ documents the culture and curses of SOLA 'SOLA: Louisiana Water Stories' looks at the region's rich culture and environmental woes. Continue watching
Apr 20 A Year in Photos: Capturing the Lingering Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill Over the course of the last year, the NewsHour has been checking in with Associated Press photographer Gerald Herbert, a New Orleans native who began covering the Gulf oil spill when BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and… Continue reading
Apr 19 One Year Later, Louisianans Still Recovering From Gulf Oil Spill Wednesday marks the one year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 workers and sent more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf waters… Continue reading