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Obama Deploys Top Aides to Gulf

EPA's Jackson, Salazar, Napolitano will monitor response

(Newser) - Three top Obama administration officials are returning to the Gulf Coast to monitor the massive oil spill that seems to have no end in sight, as frustration with the response to the spill threatens to boil over. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson was headed today to Louisiana, where she...

Frustration Oozes in Darkening Gulf

With no fix in sight, residents target BP, feds

(Newser) - Anger is oozing along the Gulf Coast along with the oil washing into delicate coastal wetlands, with residents questioning the federal government and others wondering how to clean up the monthlong mess that worsens each day. "It's difficult to clean up when you haven't stopped the source," says...

Obama Names 2 to Gulf Oil Spill Panel

Former Sen. Bob Graham, ex-EPA administrator William Reilly

(Newser) - President Obama announced today that former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Graham, a Democrat, is a former Florida governor and senator. Reilly ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President George HW Bush....

Louisiana's Marshland More Like Quicksand

 Louisiana Marshland 
  Defies Cleanup 
No pressure-wash here
May 21, 2010 1:30 PM CDT

Louisiana Marshland Defies Cleanup

Dredging to create barrier might actually be the most cost effective

(Newser) - Ever since the Deepwater Horizon spill, Bobby Jindal has been advocating building temporary islands to protect Louisiana's marshes from oncoming oil. With heavy oil hitting the wetlands this week, environmentalists are actually starting to take the Louisiana governor seriously, AOL News reports. It's not that the plan is great—there...

Scientists Slam White House on Oil Spill Response
Scientists Slam White House on Oil Spill Response
HEAVY OIL HITS SHORE
May 20, 2010 7:45 AM CDT

Scientists Slam White House on Oil Spill Response

Meanwhile, heavy oil hitting Louisiana marshlands

(Newser) - With heavy oil at last washing ashore in Louisiana, scientists are slamming the Obama administration for responding to the Deepwater Horizon spill too slowly, and not investigating enough. “It seems baffling that we don't know how much oil is being spilled,” one oceanographer said on Capitol Hill yesterday....

Fla. Tar Balls Not From Spill, but Oil Heading That Way

Loop Current will take it up the Florida coast in about a week

(Newser) - Good news: The tar balls found on the beaches of Florida are not a result of the Gulf oil spill, authorities have proven. Bad news: It's only a matter of days before the oil hits for real. The spill has reached the Loop Current, the Miami Herald reports, which will...

Fed Oversight Failed in Gulf Oil Catastrophe: Salazar

Feds should have more oversight on safety devices, he says

(Newser) - Ken Salazar admitted today that the government should have had better standards in place on the devices built to prevent disasters on offshore oil wells. The interior secretary said he believed "additional work should have been done on blowout preventers," reports USA Today . "There will be tremendous...

US Expands No-Fishing Area in Gulf

45,728 square miles now closed

(Newser) - The US today expanded the area around the Gulf oil spill where fishing is banned. The government's oceanic authority ordered 19% of federally controlled waters off-limits for fishing, up from 8% Friday and 10% yesterday. The area closed now covers 45,728 square miles, CNN reports. Meanwhile, three separate Senate...

BP Boss: Environment Will Be Fine
BP Boss: Environment
Will Be Fine
May 18, 2010 11:14 AM CDT

BP Boss: Environment Will Be Fine

Gulf spill cleanup 'textbook example' of emergency response

(Newser) - Tony Hayward is an optimist. The BP CEO believes his company's done a great job responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he tells Sky News . After bragging about a new piece of technology that's allowed BP to harvest thousands of gallons of oil from the leak,...

Tar Balls Found Off Key West
 Tar Balls Found Off Key West 
May 18, 2010 7:29 AM CDT

Tar Balls Found Off Key West

But the Coast Guard isn't sure they're from the spill

(Newser) - Twenty tar balls have been found off Key West, though the Coast Guard stopped short of saying whether they came from the massive Gulf oil spill. The balls, which were 3-to-8 inches in diameter, were discovered yesterday by the Florida Park Service and have been sent to a lab for...

Let's Nuke the Oil Spill&mdash;Literally

 Let's Nuke the Oil 
 Spill—Literally 
OPINION
May 17, 2010 7:36 AM CDT

Let's Nuke the Oil Spill—Literally

Because BP's self-serving repair attempts are laughable

(Newser) - Nearly a month into the BP oil spill disaster, it's time to get serious. It's time to blow the well shut with a nuclear weapon, argues nuclear policy scholar Christopher Brownfield—seriously. So far, BP's been trying to clumsily fix the well rather than destroy it, most recently using a...

BP Pipe Siphons Some Oil, Dislodges
 BP Pipe Siphons 
 Some Oil, Dislodges 
UPDATED
May 16, 2010 12:40 PM CDT

BP Pipe Siphons Some Oil, Dislodges

Engineers trying to get pipe to work again

(Newser) - BP says engineers trying to stop an oil leak deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico used a mile-long tube to funnel some oil to the surface, but that it became dislodged. In a news release, BP says it halted the process early today, but that some of the oil and...

BP: The Tube Is In


 BP: The Tube Is In 
May 16, 2010 11:19 AM CDT

BP: The Tube Is In

Oil giant hopes to siphon large part of gushing oil

(Newser) - BP has successfully inserted a pipe into the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well, a source confirmed to the Wall Street Journal , raising hopes that a majority of the leak could be siphoned up to a ship on the surface. A BP spokesman declined comment.

BP: Pipe Will Stem Oil Flow
 BP: Pipe Will Stem Oil Flow  
May 16, 2010 6:33 AM CDT

BP: Pipe Will Stem Oil Flow

But company's still jiggering its latest experiment

(Newser) - BP hit a snag yesterday in its effort to reduce the amount of oil blasting from the remains of a broken rig into the Gulf of Mexico. BP said it was confident that its mile-long pipe would capture much of the oil flow, but engineers failed to connect two pieces...

BP Threading Tube in Latest Bid to Plug Leak

It's the latest solution of the day

(Newser) - At first, BP tried to stop the oil rushing into the Gulf of Mexico by flipping a blowout preventer switch. A week ago, they attempted to capture the leak with a 100-ton box. The latest experiment? Trying to guide a skinny, mile-long tube into the gusher. BP technicians were gingerly...

Much of Spilled Oil Already Gone

Around 35% probably evaporated, model suggests

(Newser) - The Deepwater Horizon disaster has led to the release of million of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but figuring out where it all is has proven kind of hard. Roughly 4.6 million gallons seem to have pooled into a shape-shifting blob off the coast of Louisiana,...

Regulators Let BP Blow Off Wildlife Permits

Endangered species protections simply ignored

(Newser) - The Minerals Management Service appears to have blatantly ignored a law requiring new oil drilling operations to get permits from the agency that assesses risk to endangered species. The MMS gave the okay to the Deepwater Horizon rig and dozens of others without getting the permits, the New York Times ...

Spill Up to 5 Times Bigger Than Gov't Says: Scientists

And they reject BP claim that leak can't be measured

(Newser) - Two weeks ago, government experts estimated that 5,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. That figure—5 times BP's initial estimate—was calculated hastily by government agencies using the wrong method, scientists charge. Some experts, especially after a video of the leak was...

Matthews: Make Cheney Testify About Oil Spill

He rips 'Incestuous' oil-White House liaison

(Newser) - Hardball's Chris Matthews insisted yesterday that former Vice President Dick Cheney be forced to testify on the Gulf oIl spill after "looking out for" Big Oil in the White House fresh from his job as CEO of Halliburton. Cheney held several "secret meetings" with oil companies, including BP...

New BP Plan: Fix the Failed 'Blowout Preventer'

Which failed in an outrageous number of ways, Congress heard yesterday

(Newser) - So far, nothing BP has tried to do to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf has worked, but company and Obama administration officials tell the New York Times they're optimistic about their latest plan: fixing the underwater “blowout preventer” that was supposed to seal off the spill...

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