Published May 30, 2010 FOXNews.com In what is measuring up to be the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history, the government is nearly helpless to stop the oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon well that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20. The White House said Sunday that it expects the spill to [...]

(Reuters) – The amount of oil and gas leaking from BP’s ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico could increase as much as 20 percent while efforts are made to cap it, the White House said on Sunday. President Barack Obama was briefed by administration officials and discussed BP’s efforts to put machines into place [...]

BP: top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil well with mud; another approach being readied By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press Writer ROBERT, La. May 29, 2010 (AP) The most ambitious bid yet to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history ended in failure Saturday after BP was unable to overwhelm the gusher of [...]

May 28, 2010 Tinkering With the Truth by Rich Galen President Obama used about an hour of his press conference yesterday trying to explain how – in spite of his handlers’ having spent the past month trotting out the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard [...]

  By Dana Milbank Sunday, May 30, 2010   For eight years we had a president who refused to accept blame. Now we have one who seems to enjoy it. In the hour President Obama spent at the podium in the East Room last week holding a news conference on the Gulf oil spill, he [...]

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JACKIE CALMES   Published: May 28, 2010 HOUSTON — BP engineers struggled Friday to plug a gushing oil well a mile under the sea, but as of late in the day they had made little headway in stemming the flow. Amid mixed messages about problems and progress, the effort — called [...]

MAY 28, 2010 In case you hadn’t heard, Ken Salazar had a reform plan . . . BP and the Coast Guard yesterday were cautiously optimistic that the “top kill” maneuver could stanch the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, and let us hope this is the beginning of the end of the disaster. In Washington, [...]

By Charles Krauthammer (Archive) · Friday, May 28, 2010 WASHINGTON — Here’s my question: Why are we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place? Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 [...]

By Michael Reagan (Archive) · Friday, May 28, 2010 Since last month’s oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, two very different leadership styles have been on display. On the one hand we have President Obama, who took nine days before making a public statement on the spill. On the other, we have Louisiana Gov. [...]

Posted 05/27/2010 06:57 PM ET Energy: An administration never enthusiastic about offshore drilling is using the Gulf oil spill as an excuse to suspend Arctic exploration. Who could’ve seen that coming? Now we’ll be more dependent on foreign oil. Suspicions in some quarters that the administration was being deliberately lax in its response to the [...]