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On this week's show: Five years of science following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Ongoing Disaster of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill The oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico is considered one of the worst oil spill disasters in history.

The oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico is considered one of the worst oil spill disasters in history.

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In addition, Mui reported on major international stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

JUNE 2012: In a series of reports, Tyee's Nikiforuk details U.S. investigators» damning account of how cultural and procedural failures at Enbridge enabled the Kalamazoo spill to become North America's worst inland oil disaster.

Obama's reign began with him having to deal with one costly disaster after another, SARS, the Gulf Oil Spill, Mortgage collapse, banks and huge car companies nearly going bankrupt and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The BP oil spill is already infamous as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

The outgoing BP chief was answering questions on the oil spill's implications for the UK, including whether a similar disaster could occur with operations in the North Sea.

BP lost $ 17 billion in the three months to June as it faced huge clean - up costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be impacted by the oil spill...

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance, based in Geneva, will provide emergency technical assistance to countries that would not otherwise be able to contain or monitor damage from disasters such as oil spills and chemical accidents.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

In what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealeIn what is perhaps the worst man - made environmental disaster in American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealein American history, the BP spill ultimately spewed 4.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf before the well was sealed.

The potential for disaster in oil spills lies in the volatility of petroleum.

Texas OneGulf was established in January 2015 as a Texas Center of Excellence after the Deepwater Horizon disaster to advance research into ongoing impacts from the oil spill and other long - term issues that threaten the health and sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil spills are serious environmental hazards, as the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrated back in 2010.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $ 1.25 bn (# 870m), as its much - criticised chief executive vows to spend «what it takes» to fix the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has caused growing anger across America.

More than half a decade ago, a BP - operated oil rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, marking the largest spill of its kind in history and an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Peter Berg puts a blue - collar spin on the 2010 BP oil spill in this immensely entertaining disaster epic.

Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have carved out a niche as re-constructors of real - life disasters, from a Navy Seal op in 2014's Lone Survivor to the BP oil spill in last year's Deepwater Horizon.

Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010 disaster in which the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

A set of resources about the Sea Empress Disaster - the oil spill in Pembrokeshire.

Beginning in 2010, Christiana joined the Department of Energy to work on the Oil Spill Commission following the disaster that struck the Gulf Region.

Morris Animal Foundation is currently working with wildlife scientists to determine needs for wildlife health research that will result from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and is prepared to grant money to research the long - term effects a disaster such as this could cause to native and endangered wildlife.

This infographic, published by Travel Insurance, illustrates exactly how much oil has spilled in the 10 biggest disasters across the globe, including how it occurred and under what circumstances.

Early on, Inside Climate News began using the shorthand «dilbit» for this substance and the name is catching on, including in the title of the new e-book consolidating the reporting — «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of.»

Between 9m and 13m barrels of oil have been spilt in the delta area during the past 50 years — that is an Exxon Valdez disaster every 12 months for the past 50 years.

The measure, launched six months ago by Texas oil giants Valero Energy Inc. and Tesoro Corp., comes as the industry has fallen under intense scrutiny in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

Obama took a beating by environmentalists for pushing to open up offshore oil and gas production, and this disaster just exacerbates it; I wonder if the loss in credibility with environmentalists because of this spill is enough to substantially undermine future energy policy initiatives.

It has been more than a month since the Exxon Mobil tar sands oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas and residents and investigators are still waiting for answers to basic questions about the disaster.

You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction.

OTTAWA — A renowned Canadian scientist says there appear to be similarities between fish deformities found downstream from Alberta's oilsands and those observed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and Florida's Deepwater Horizon disaster.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

Brad Johnson, then writing for Think Progress, explained that Witt O'Brien's PIER Systems was «being used by Unified Command for media and public information management» during the Deepwater Horizon spill in an article titled, «BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors.»

From Exxon Valdez to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, oil companies have proven they are willing to endanger everyone and everything living in and near the ocean, as long as they profit.

Over the last two months the U.S. Congress has been engaged in a great operatic drama over what many have called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history: the BP Gulf oil spill.

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced today that InsideClimate News reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer were awarded an honorable mention for «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of» in the 2012 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

One lesson of the Gulf oil spill that is an ominous warning about climate change is that the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrates that what are often initially believed to be low probability, in fact unforeseeable, catastrophic impacts do happen.

InsideClimate's The Dilbit Disaster explores the million gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, which triggered the most expensive cleanup in U.S. history — more than $ 800 million.

Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in Michigan's Kalamazoo River.

In Congress, I will fight to protect our oceans and the wildlife they support from pollution, human - caused disasters like the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, overfishing, and other potential threats.

Seven years is about three lifetimes in turbine technology yet there was no mention of newer, safer machines, nor were the words «Fukushima disaster» or «BP oil spill» heard in answer.

You only have to think about the damage caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year to see a true environmental disaster.

Since then, according to the Los Angeles Times, Plains All American Pipeline LP — the company responsible for the disaster — disclosed in its quarterly earnings in early August 2015 that the spill «may have been bigger and costlier than originally expected» and that «as many as 143,000 gallons of crude [oil] may have been spilled when the line ruptured.»

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and recent coal - mine disasters (not to mention mountaintop removal) have reminded Americans of the risks associated with oil drilling and coal mining.