Jun 15 Full Video: President Obama's Oval Office Address on Gulf Oil Disaster By News Desk Watch all of President Obama's Oval Office address on the federal response to the ongoing Gulf Coast oil leak disaster: // Also, make sure to check out analysis and opinion from a variety of experts in Obama's Annotated… Continue reading
Jun 15 Scientists Again Raise Government Estimate of Oil Leak Rate By News Desk Updated 7:47pm ET Details are still emerging about the scope of the new oil flow estimate, and it is not yet completely clear whether that estimate apples only to the flow rate after the riser was cut on June 3,… Continue reading
Jun 15 Oil Execs Grilled Over Spill Readiness; Fire Delays Containment Effort *Updated 4:47 p.m. ET *| BP PLC spokesman Bill Salvin told The Associated Press Tuesday afternoon that a drillship resumed capturing oil about five hours after a fire caused an emergency shutdown. He said there was no damage reported… Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch Gulf States Face Long Road to Environmental, Economic Recovery As criticism of BP and the Obama administration's handling of the Gulf spill continues, Gwen Ifill talks to two local officials about the president's visit and what it will take for the region to bounce back from the environmental and… Continue watching
Jun 15 Watch Obama Promises 'Unprecedented Response' to Gulf Spill Victims President Barack Obama vowed to do whatever is necessary to clean up the Gulf as he returned to Washington to address the nation, following his visit to survey damage from the blown-out oil well. Judy Woodruff gets a preview of… Continue watching
Jun 15 Watch Oil Executives Face Congressional Criticism Over Spill Readiness BP and other oil executives defended offshore drilling during hearings Tuesday in the House, as criticism of the response to the disaster continues to mount. Ray Suarez has an update on the hearings and the downgrading of BP's credit rating. Continue watching
Jun 14 NOAA Launches 'One Stop Shop' for Oil Spill Data By Chris Amico The federal government Monday released what it called "a one-stop shop for detailed near-real-time information about the response to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill" in an effort to get updates out the range of groups affected by the… Continue reading
Jun 14 Obama: 'Things Are Going to Return to Normal' for Gulf Region Workers clean oil off the beach in Grand Isle, La. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Updated 4:51 p.m. ET | President Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone over the ongoing oil disaster Monday afternoon, saying that "things are going to… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch White House Legal Authority Over Oil Claims Assessed as Spill Continues As the Obama administration pressures BP to start an independently monitored escrow fund to expedite oil leak damage claims for people and businesses in the Gulf region, Ray Suarez talks to two attorneys about the White House's legal authority to… Continue watching
Jun 11 BP Aims to Double Capture of Leaking Oil by Mid-July A day after a the federal government doubled its estimate of the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen outlined BP's plan to raise its capacity to capture and process more… Continue reading