Senators Now Crossing the Aisle for Electric Car
(Washington, DC - Todd Zwillich, Transportation Nation) Lawmakers are hoping for a chance to give the electric car a jolt in the Senate’s upcoming energy bill.A bipartisan group of senators are pushing...
View ArticleSpilLover: Balancing Oil in Times Square
When oil started gushing in the Gulf, Brooklynite Josephine Decker felt overwhelmed. She wanted to do something to call attention to the spill and start conversations about conserving oil. So she got a...
View ArticleBP Says It Will Reinvent Company
Energy giant BP announced on Tuesday that American Robert Dudley will replace British Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward on October 1. The news came as BP reported a record $17 billion quarterly...
View ArticleDocuments Reveal Congressional Safety Concerns Prior to BP Disaster
Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, officials in Congress were concerned about the "cozy" relationship between federal regulators and the oil industry and the failure of...
View ArticleGulf Fishing Communities a Year Later
A year after a an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig created a devastating oil spill in the region, how are fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico dealing with the disaster? The BBC's Robyn...
View ArticleExplainer: Will High Gas Prices Hurt Obama's Re-Election Hopes?
With gas prices on the rise—over $5/gallon in some places—Republican presidential candidates hammered the Obama administration this week for over-regulating domestic energy production.In a new...
View ArticleInterview with David Sassoon, Founder of Pulitzer Prize Winning Environmental...
In July of 2010, a catastrophic oil spill took place in Marshall, Michigan, flooding a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo river. At the time, the media paid it little attention, distracted...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin Dives to the Gulf Floor with Antonia Juhasz
BP recently settled civil lawsuits over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the tune of more than 18 billion dollars. But it's not the end of the story for the worst marine spill in U.S. history....
View ArticleFinding Your Calling with StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay, Translating the...
StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares stories from people who do what they love in Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, and we'll hear from you! A new film looks at how the Deepwater Horizon...
View ArticleSix Years Later, the Fallout from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Six years ago today, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico near the Mississippi River Delta. Oil gushed for 87 days, leaking an estimated 210 million gallons into the ocean....
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