Offshore Spill News Today

Welcome back to "the lead." im jake tapper. topping the national lead today, californias governor is declaring a state of emergency after a 24-inch underground pipeline ruptured near the santa barbara toast tuesday. more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil likely spread across the beach and parts of the pacific ocean. five times worse than initially thoughts. cleanup crews working around the clock. paul vercammen joins us live from california. whats the latest on the cleanup and are they making an...

Sands throughout the midwest. as bad as we are of cleaning up crude oil that spills into the ocean, we have no idea how to clean up spills of tar sandsç oil, none. congresss role is to do nothing to improve the safety of drilling. but they are trying to force new oil projects to be approved even when we know overtly that they are not safe. they are insisting that the safety concerns be overridden. and that is sort of reflective of the overall politics on this issue now. its as if bp never happ...

Become the biggest offshore spill in our countrys history. and the fbis now investigating what caused a hole in the fuselage of a us airways plane. a pilot making a preflight inspection of the plane found the hole in the rear of the aircraft. the plane just arrived from philadelphia when damage was discovered. >> dra mat ingains on standardized tests in public schools a result of someone making changes? according to a ""usa today" investigation, high scoring schools had extraordinarily high nu...

Thoughts, reach me on twitter, facebook. contessa@msnbc.com. federal prosecutors are considering manslaughter charges against bp managers for the gulf oil well explosion and spill. the deepwater horizon reg blew up nearly a year ago. 11 workers lost their lives and the explosion caused the biggest offshore spill in history. sources familiar with the case say investigators are also looking at testimony made by well, so much for richard and poorer, when marriage ends up in divorce, its all abo...

In terms of the safety requirements that would have to be put in place because that accident would be an offshore spill. the same way the transocean rig is really registered in the marshall islands and norwegians determine how safe it is and move it into the gulf of mexico. its one thing to drill offshore. itis another thing to offshore safety regulations. itis whats been happening. im afraid the judge is part of this. one of the ways i got to congress 34 years ago, i had a piece of legislation ...

To improve the safety of drilling. they are trying to force new oil projects to be approved even when we know overtly that they are not safe. they are insisting that the safety concerns be overridden. that is sort of reflective of the overall politics on this issue. its as if bp never happened. the biggest offshore spill in american history that continues to leave those along with gulf coast with what appears to be lifelong health problems. the fight in this years presidential election is the re...