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
Aug 09 Monday: Drilling to Resume on Oil Relief Well; Aid Group to Stay in Afghanistan After Killings Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday that cement forced down the top of BP's blown-out well last week has hardened enough so that workers can begin drilling the final 100 feet of the relief well and seal… Continue reading
Aug 06 In Louisiana, Journalists and Cleanup Crews Bake in the Heat By Tom Bearden If you're not used to it, the heat and humidity along the Gulf Coast can be devastating. I'm not used to it, despite having made eight trips to the Gulf since April 28. I live in Colorado, where the humidity… Continue reading
Aug 05 BP Begins Cementing Well in Final ‘Static Kill’ Step Updated 5:07 p.m. ET BP says it has finished pouring cement into the well. "Monitoring of the well is under way in order to confirm the effectiveness of the procedure," the company said in a statement. Updated 1:57 p.m. ET… Continue reading
Aug 05 Gulf Residents Ask: Will Promises Be Broken on the Oil Spill Response? By Tom Bearden A lot of people in south Louisiana think the rest of the country is about to abandon them. Again. On Wednesday, the U.S. government announced that most of the oil from the Macondo well blowout is already gone… Continue reading
Aug 05 Watch Gulf Residents Wonder How Long BP, Government Will Stick Around for Cleanup The government reports that most of the leaked oil is gone from Gulf waters and shorelines, but there is now growing concern and questions on how long cleanup crews will be around. Tom Bearden reports from Venice, Louisiana. Continue watching
Aug 04 Almost 75% of Oil in Gulf Now Accounted For, Government Says By Lea Winerman Almost three-quarters of the oil that was released into the Gulf of Mexico during the nearly three-month-long Deepwater Horizon oil leak has been vacuumed up, burned, naturally biodegraded or dispersed in the water, according to a government report released… Continue reading
Aug 04 BP’s ‘Static Kill’ Holding Back Oil Flow Nearly four months after the worst accidental oil leak in history began in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is claiming a victory in its effort to plug its blown-out oil well. BP said Wednesday that mud forced down the… Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch Report Says Oil Mostly Gone, But Some Along Gulf Remain Skeptical BP reports the static kill on the Gulf oil well is a success so far, but some Gulf Coast residents are questioning a new government report that states around three-quarters of the spilled oil is already gone. Gwen Ifill reports… Continue watching