BP Official: Leaking Gulf Oil Well to Be Shut ‘Hopefully Within a Week’
In a newsmaker interview, Jeffrey Brown talks to BP Managing Director Robert Dudley about the gulf oil leak, as lawmakers point blame at the company, nearly a month after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more on The Online NewsHour
To U.S. offshore drilling official abruptly retires
WASHINGTON — The top federal official in charge of overseeing offshore drilling retired abruptly on Monday as BP’s chief operating officer pledged that his company would never pump oil from the runaway Deepwater Horizon well that exploded, killed 11 workers and began spewing millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Read more on McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News
A top NOAA official says the Gulf Coast oil spill is a major blow to the US economy and the environment. David Kennedy is the acting administrator for the National Ocean Service, a branch of NOAA that manages coastal and marine resources. (April 29).
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