May 28 Behind the Special ‘Drilling Mud’ That Helps Clog the Oil Leak The key to stemming the stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico may be as clear as mud. Spill officials said this morning that blasting the leaking well with "heavy drilling mud" seem to be working to… Continue reading
May 28 Sick Fishermen Spark Worries About Health Effects of Oil, Chemicals Reports of fisherman who had been hired to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico falling ill have raised concerns about the health effects of the stew of oil and chemicals in the area. On… Continue reading
May 27 Gov 2.0: Exploring Data With Google’s Crisis Response Team By Kate Gardiner Technology lovers and data geeks from all over the country gathered in Washington, D.C. this week for the Gov 2.0 Expo to explore the power of data and its emerging role in government. We spoke with Google's Natasha Wyatt… Continue reading
May 27 Viewers Answer YouTube Call for Oil Spill Suggestions On Tuesday, the NewsHour put out a YouTube call for viewers to submit their own suggestions for how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and clean up the oil that's been gushing for more… Continue reading
May 27 Liveblogging Oil Leak Developments: Spill Now Worst in U.S. History By Quinn Bowman UPDATED: 6:13 PM: The New York Times is reporting that the top kill procedure has been halted by BP Thursday afternoon "when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping… Continue reading
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 Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak: A Month in Photos By Lea Winerman More than a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to spew into the ocean from a pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface. Meanwhile, containment and… Continue reading
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