Nov 08 Watch Live: BP Oil Spill Commission Hearing By News Desk The National Oil Spill Commission is holding two days of public hearings this week into the cause of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that triggered the disaster. Officials from BP, Transocean, and Halliburton will be called to answer… Continue reading
Nov 08 Obama in India; BP Oil Spill Hearings Begin; Myanmar’s Junta Holds Election President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pose after a joint press conference at Hyderabad House on Nov. 8, 2010, in New Delhi, India. President Obama is spending a second day in New Delhi, where he is addressing… Continue reading
Nov 08 Watch At Oil Spill Commission Hearing, ‘Rough Day’ for BP, Halliburton, Transocean The lead investigator of the national oil spill commission said there's no evidence of BP trading dollars for safety, but a long list of errors by the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon rig's operation were aired at a new… Continue watching
Oct 26 Frontline, ProPublica Examine BP’s Dismal Safety Record and Gulf Oil Spill DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s44c8qf90', 'r9fYYWlOKL8', '29'); The past decade was one of rapid growth for BP, a company that now dominates the oil industry. Mergers expanded the BP empire and cost-cutting helped keep shareholders happy. The newest collaboration between Frontline… Continue reading
Oct 22 6 Months After Gulf Oil Crisis Began, Environmental Fears and ‘Spillionaires’ By Lea Winerman Six months after oil began flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP's blown-out well is long capped but the effects of the spill are still being felt. Hari Sreenivasan spoke to Bob Marshall, who covers the… Continue reading
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
Oct 12 Watch Obama Administration Lifts Ban on Deep Water Oil Drilling A temporary ban on deep water oil drilling has been lifted. The moratorium was put in place after the BP spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Judy Woodruff talks to reporter Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post for more. Continue watching
Oct 12 Ban Lifted on Deep Water Oil Drilling By Maureen Hoch The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is lifting a moratorium on deep water oil drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration has been under pressure from business leaders and others… Continue reading
Oct 12 First Satellite Image of Hungary’s Toxic Sludge NASA's Earth Observatory has released this image of the toxic spill in Hungary. The image was taken on Oct. 9. The alumina plant appears along the right edge of both images, and incorporates both bright blue and brick… Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Obama Administration Defends Oil Spill Response After Critical Report A presidential commission has offered some harsh words of criticism of the White House response to the BP oil spill. Ray Suarez talks to David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post for details. Continue watching