Jul 19 Watch NRC Chief: U.S. Nuclear Plants Safe Despite Age, Needed Upgrades The earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Japanese coast and triggered a nuclear crisis raised major questions surrounding the safety of U.S. nuclear reactors. Gwen Ifill discusses new safety regulations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with its head, Gregory… Continue watching
Jun 15 Tracking Energy Booms, Busts and the Rise of the 'Fracking' Debate NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden reports Wednesday on a community in Colorado that was once the site of large-scale oil drilling operations. Now, it is filled with gas-producing wells in another kind of energy boom. Continue reading
May 18 Watch Debate Over Rising Gas Prices Heats Up in Congress Two bills focused on oil company tax breaks, deep-sea drilling and reducing rising gas prices have reignited energy policy debates on Capitol Hill. Congressional correspondent Kwame Holman reports on the political fight over prices at the pump. Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch Obama Outlines Energy Goals: Is U.S. Balancing Conservation, Consumption? What's the right path for U.S. energy policy in the aftermath of major disruptions?… Continue watching
Feb 03 Watch News Wrap: Egypt Unrest Rattles Energy Market, Prompts Senate Hearing In other news Thursday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard testimony that unrest in Egypt has rattled energy markets but is only one factor in rising oil prices. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported that a 3.5… Continue watching
Oct 13 How Many Wind Farms Are in the Works for the U.S.? Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that it will invest in an enormous new project to build an undersea transmission line off the mid-Atlantic coast that could bring energy from offshore wind farms to as many as 1.9 million… Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch What Happened to Democrats' Energy, Climate Change Legislation Plans? With the Senate at home for the summer, a clean-energy and climate-change bill appears to be all but dead. For a closer look at what pulled the plug on the legislation, Margaret Warner is joined by environmental writers Darren Samuelsohn… Continue watching
Aug 09 What Killed Obama's Energy Bill Plans? Lawmakers have declared the chances of getting a major energy bill through this Congress all but dead. But the prospects for getting legislation addressing the problems of rising greenhouse gases actually began fading weeks ago. Continue reading
Jul 08 Solar Power Takes to the Skies With 26-Hour Flight By Lauren Knapp An experimental plane powered only by solar energy completed 26 hours of non-stop flying over Switzerland Thursday. The Rundown took a look at the feat and asked for some reactions to the Solar Impulse test flight from around… Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch Despite BP Spill, Brazil Pushes Forward With Oil Drilling Boom In a report from Brazil, Margaret Warner examines how the country is pursuing deepwater oil drilling even as the Gulf of Mexico spill raises new environmental concerns about the risks involved. Continue watching