Oct 01 Feinberg: Gulf Oil Spill Claims Paid More Quickly, but Tough Calls Ahead By Murrey Jacobson Payments for claims tied to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are set to crack the $1 billion mark next week, but there are still at least 20,000 claims that have yet to be resolved and… Continue reading
Sep 23 New Gulf Oil Spill Flow Rate Estimate Released By Jenny Marder In the early days of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, estimates varied wildly on the amount of oil gushing from the blown-out well. As spring turned to summer and the oil kept flowing, the government revised its calculations. Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch Oil Disaster Draws New Attention to Louisiana’s Coastal Erosion Even though the blown-out BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been permanently sealed, Louisiana is continuing its battle against another environmental challenge: coastal erosion. Tom Bearden reports. Continue watching
Sep 20 Oil Well Killed, But Legal and Environmental Battles Just Beginning The Development Driller III rig used to drill the relief well (Photo: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images) After a weekend of final sealing and testing, the federal government on Sunday declared the Macondo oil well officially dead. Continue reading
Sep 16 Bacteria Gobbling Natural Gas in the Gulf By Hari Sreenivasan While attention on the Gulf has mostly focused on oil, the explosion and spill also released tremendous amounts of natural gas. David Valentine, a microbial geochemistry professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his research team… Continue reading
Sep 09 Slide Show: The Gulf’s Healing Process By Sarah Clune NEW ORLEANS | AP photographer Gerald Herbert has been documenting the BP oil disaster in the Gulf -- from the land, sea and air -- since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20. In the three months since… Continue reading
Sep 08 8 Key Failures Led to Gulf Oil Spill, BP Report Says By Jenny Marder In its long-awaited internal report on this summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP blamed contractors Halliburton and Transocean for many of the problems leading up to the country's worst-ever oil spill -- igniting anger from the companies blamed. No… Continue reading
Sep 03 Louisiana Shrimp, Petroleum Festival Draws Attention Amid Oil Woes MORGAN CITY, La. | Some people might find it odd that this city near Louisiana's southern coast has a Shrimp and Petroleum Festival. Somehow the two don't seem to go together. But some local citizens get a bit… Continue reading
Sep 02 BP Removes Cap From Well, Moves Toward Final Well Kill BP engineers on Thursday removed the cap that first stopped the blown-out Macondo oil well from spewing oil and gas back in mid-July. The removal brings BP one step closer to permanently killing the well, which has… Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch How Is Gulf Coast Mentally Coping With Devastation of Two Disasters? Physical damage from Hurricane Katrina is still evident in New Orleans while the psychological devastation is sometimes harder to detect. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser examines the mental impact of two disasters, Katrina and then the Gulf oil disaster, in… Continue watching