brown: ray suarez talks to marcia coyle about today s supreme court argument: are prescription drug records confidential medical data, or can drug companies use them to market their products? warner: tom bearden reports on attitudes toward b.p. and the government a year after the blowout of the deepwater horizon well. there are an awful lot of people who live along the gulf coast who are extra extraordinarily unhappy about the the way the whole b.p. oil spill was handled. brown: hari sreenivasan poses some of your questions about autism to robert macneil. warner: and we profile poet c.d. wright, whose latest work looks back at the civil rights era in arkansas. brown: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: oil companies make huge profits. last year, chevron made a lot of money. where does it go? every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. the economy is tough right now, everywher
far more than we ve ever seen with saltwater intrusion. can i stop you, billy, for one second? i want to stop you, because i want to make sure people understand you. why is there erosion of the coastline? how does the oil create that problem? well, the oil is being picked up off the bottom of bay jimmy, slammed into the marsh. it s killed the grass. there s nothing to hold the mud together. we ve begged for bank stabilization, for them to clean the marsh. on many occasions, they ll try, they ll say we re going to do more harm than good, but it s been a dog and pony show, and nothing s really been done out there. can i switch gears just a second? is opening up all of the ocean space to fishing, is that the right thing to do, both from an economic perspective and perhaps, more importantly, in terms of the environmental issue of where the oil is? well, we ve seen more seafood tests than ever before. i eat the seafood, the fishing s never been better. but we have isolated area wher
disaster. and here today, we re still seeing a dog and pony show about cleaning up the areas of the marsh that still have oil in them and still are impacting the wildlife, not to the degree we saw early on, but it s still a mess in certain areas. billy, i want to get specific here, just so we know where to push the elected officials and bp. what is not happening that should be happening? where are the areas where you re not seeing the effort, the activity, or the chain of command that satisfies you? give us the specific things that need to get done. we have one or two crews out in bay jimmy. every once in a while they ll pick up a little marsh and act like they re doing something. when every day we see a thunderstorm slam the oil into the bank line, and in four or five days, that oil falls off into the water, the next thunderstorm washes three or four more feet in. we have seen rapid deterioration of the coastline in those areas,
bay jimmy, pass lutera, and those dead dolphins that washed up full of oil, that oil has come from somewhere. we don t feel we re getting the true picture of what s out there and the federal government and bp and the coast guard, we don t feel is being honest with us. and we have little trust i was going to say, there is a school of thought, billy, that a lot of this oil has dropped to the bottom and it s sitting right on the ocean floor and nobody s testing there or picking it up down there. is that what you fear? absolutely. you know, noaa has all this great equipment, and yet we don t know what s out there. it s a guessing game. we spent all this money to tell everybody it s right, we re going to make it right. let s make the public honestly aw aware of what s going on. we still have concerns about the health, especially of the men and women that worked to clean up the oil. there s all kind of health
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