Jun 17 Thursday: BP CEO to Appear Before Congress; Israel Eases Access to Gaza BP CEO Tony Hayward and other company executives leave the White House following Wednesday's meeting with President Barack Obama. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. A day after meeting with President Obama at the White House and agreeing to… Continue reading
Jun 16 BP, Obama Agree on $20 Billion Fund for Oil Leak Claims By News Desk President Obama and BP agreed Wednesday on a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the oil leak damaging the Gulf Coast's environment and economies. BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg apologized to Americans for the worst spill in U.S. history… Continue reading
Jun 16 Is Gulf Disaster a Political Problem for Obama? Yes, But Not Everywhere By Dante Chinni Somewhere in the 50-plus days that raw crude has been spewing from a hole in the floor of the ocean, the Gulf oil spill became a political problem for the White House. But the problems for the president aren't the… Continue reading
Jun 16 President Obama’s Response to Oil Disaster: Video Timeline By Mike Fritz Since the Gulf oil spill disaster began in April, President Obama's rhetoric has evolved as the crisis has grown - and as the administration faced calls for a stronger federal response. Watch a highlight reel of key moments in… Continue reading
Jun 15 Shields and Brooks: Will Obama’s Oil Disaster Speech Change Minds? By News Desk After President Obama’s Oval Office address on the ongoing Gulf disaster, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks joined Judy Woodruff to review the substance of the primetime speech. “I thought the windup was stronger than the pitch,” Shields said. 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 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 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