Page 10 - Tom Bauer News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

They're going to do their best to prevent it from happening again but the government has got as much responsibility now as the oil corporations to make sure that the regulations are there and enforced. >> tom bauer, many thanks to you this morning. we appreciate it. >> pleasure. >> i'm not sure i agree that they're doing a bang-up job down there. >> you mean bp or the oil industry as a whole? i think he was separating them out. >> i think he was trying to separate it but it just doesn't feel right to say that as a whole the industry's just doing a great job down there. >> it is sort of like yo...

he was working for bp on clean-up duty after the oil spill took away his livelihood. bp says is has now spent $2.35 billion on the oil spill response. that includes crews, cleanup, containment, the federal bill and drilling a relief well. cnn's chris lawrence is in the gulf. chris, we've heard from a lot of people in this industry who want to see this moratorium lifted. >> reporter: that's right. now really for the first time bp also says that. you never thought you'd see that. a lot of people here in the gulf agreeing with something that bp says. but now a bp official has come out...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.