{"id":20038,"date":"2010-05-31T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times-officials_warn_oil_spill_may_not_be_capped_until_august\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T00:01:17","slug":"la_times-officials_warn_oil_spill_may_not_be_capped_until_august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20038","title":{"rendered":"LA Times&#8211;Officials warn oil spill may not be capped until August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top Obama administration official warned Sunday that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might not be stopped until late summer after BP&#8217;s latest attempt to plug the leak failed.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;American people need to know&#8221; that it&#8217;s &#8220;possible we will have oil leaking from this well until August, when the relief wells will be finished,&#8221; said Carol Browner, the White House energy advisor.<\/p>\n<p>Browner said on CBS that Energy Secretary Steven Chu and a team of scientists on Saturday essentially put a halt to BP&#8217;s attempt to cap the spewing well through a process known as &#8220;top kill.&#8221; The administration team worried that the increasing pressure from heavy drilling mud being forced into the well to seal it actually would make the leak worse.<\/p>\n<p>The worst oil leak in U.S. history is now in its 41st day. It is sending 504,000 to 798,000 gallons a day into the Gulf of Mexico, according to estimates by a government panel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-oil-spill-obama-20100531,0,2161613,print.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Obama administration official warned Sunday that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might not be stopped until late summer after BP&#8217;s latest attempt to plug the leak failed. The &#8220;American people need to know&#8221; that it&#8217;s &#8220;possible we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20038\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,589,149,140,168,114,616,151,667,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}