Spill baby, spill! What the heck happened?

The oil in the Gulf continues to spew out into the environment at a horrific rate….and it has started to come ashore meaning the delicate shallow-watered ecosystems nearest the coast are threatened.

Amidst the coverage of the ecological disaster, we are still left with questions:

• Why did this happen?
• Who’s fault is this?
• What went wrong?
• When will it be fixed?

Check out a discussion of this topic, the future of offshore drilling, on the Diane Rehm show.  Guests include:

• Neil King, Jr.: National reporter, “the Wall Street Journal”
• Joseph Romm: Senior fellow at the Center for American progress; he runs the blog ClimateProgress.org and is the author of “Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions.”
• Scott Segal: Head of the Government Relations practice at Bracewell & Giuliani. He represents utilities, refiners and manufacturers.
• Mark Schleifstein: Environment reporter for the Times-Picayune and co-author of “Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms.”

Check out the videos below which show the underwater spill and some of the current options for dealing with the leaks.

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