Cleaning Up the Oil

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05/28/2010

May. 28, 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?

Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer

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

May. 28, 2010