Robert Dudley will officially take over the CEO spot at BP this Friday, Oct. 1, but he's been re-shuffling the BP administration. Will he be able to successfully change BP's image?
Are the safety laws on America's pipelines springing some leaks? That's what the Senate Commerce Committee debates this afternoon. That deadly natural gas explosion in San Bruno, Calif., this month has prompted calls for more federal oversight and pipeline upgrades. Sarah Gardner reports.
Months ago British oil company BP promised $500 million for scientists to study the oil spill's impact — no strings attached. Now there are some. Eve Troeh reports.
Without these federal fossil fuel tax breaks, the oil industry may not have taken off as it did. But a century later, some believe it's time to focus the subsidies on renewable energy.
An international summit in Moscow is focusing on who owns the rights to riches thought to be under the Arctic seabed. Europe correspondent Stephen Beard talks with Steve Chiotakis about who will be at the summit and what they are trying to achieve there.
After nearly five months, the government says the BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has finally stopped gushing. Reporter Alisa Roth talks with Bill Radke about what how much money BP is out so far and whether we can expect to see BP drilling in the Gulf again.
It'll be a pretty expensive undertaking for oil companies to permanently plug thousands of unused wells in the Gulf, per request of the Interior Department, but at least it'll keep local employed.
California regulators have ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to survey all its natural gas pipelines after one of its pipelines in San Bruno, Calif., exploded. Reporter Nancy Marshall Genzer talks with Steve Chiotakis.
Oil cartel OPEC is celebrating its 50th anniversary. On September 10, 1960, a conference kicked off in Baghdad which led to its formation. Europe correspondent Stephen Beard talks with Steve Chiotakis about whether OPEC has been a success.
