Friday, May 28th, 2010

Cleaning Up the Oil

Efforts to implement a 'top kill,' pumping heavy mud into the broken riser pipe coming from the Deepwater Horizon oil well, are in progress, with hopeful signs. As oil experts continue to work to seal the gushing leak from the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe, we'll talk about cleanup efforts, from old-fashioned scrubbing to microbes that eat oil. Can the oil be cleaned up? How? How long will its effects linger? And what, if anything, will the Deepwater Horizon incident do to change how offshore drilling is conducted?

Guests

Ronald Atlas
Former President, American Society for Microbiology
Professor, Biology and Public Health
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

Beverly Sauer
Author, "The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments" (Routledge, 2002)
Professor of the Practice
McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University
Washington, DC

Larry McKinney
Executive Director, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
Texas A&M University
Corpus Christi, Texas

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• Deepwater Horizon Response site
• NOAA Office of Response and Restoration

Segment produced by:Christopher Intagliata

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