May 27 Watch Gulf Spill Surpasses Exxon Valdez Spill as Worst in U.S. History President Obama called the Gulf Coast spill an "unprecedented disaster" as estimates for the leaking oil surpassed the Exxon Valdez spill, making it the worst oil eco-disaster in U.S. history. Judy Woodruff gets two points of view on the scale… Continue watching
May 26 Photos: Wildlife Suffer as Oil Spreads By Sarah Clune, Lea Winerman For AP photographer Gerald Herbert, the story of the oil spill in the Gulf is personal. A New Orleans native, he worked for years out of Washington, D.C., covering Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. But just after he… Continue reading
May 25 Gulf Coast Oil Leak: What Are Your Suggestions? By Hari Sreenivasan As the Gulf Coast oil leak continues, we want to hear your thoughts on the best way to stop the spill and also how to clean up the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading
May 25 Watch Heavier Oil Flow Threatens Louisiana’s Sensitive Barrier Islands Oil from the Gulf of Mexico leak turned darker on Tuesday, suggesting that heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out. Tom Bearden reports from Louisiana, where the oil has begun to damage delicate barrier island ecosystems. Continue watching
May 24 Monday: Frustration at BP Growing; South Korea Cuts Off Trade With North A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on Sunday. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. Efforts to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took a step backward over the weekend. On… Continue reading
May 24 Watch Coast Guard’s Allen Outlines Roles of BP, Government in Gulf Oil Cleanup As the Gulf oil leak continues, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, for the latest on the spreading contamination and what the government and BP are doing to contain and halt the leak. Continue watching
May 24 Watch Feds Pressure BP to Intensify Efforts to Stem Gulf Coast Oil Leak Obama administration officials and senators reiterated Monday that they will hold BP responsible for cleaning up the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, as heavy oil continues to seep into fragile marshland along the coast. Correspondent Tom Bearden gives… Continue watching
May 21 Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features ‘Spillcam’ By Hari Sreenivasan BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean. Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had… Continue reading
May 21 Government, BP to Revise Estimated Rate of Oil Leak By Lea Winerman Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday that… Continue reading