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To say. we posted the entire interview. cnn.com/situation room. you ll learn a lot about the region from general mattis. this just coming in, new information right now. halliburton energy services has agreed to plead guilty to destruction of evidence in connection with the 2010 deep water horizon disaster. the largest oil spill in u.s. history. the justice department says the company has agreed to pay the maximum available fine. be subject to three years of probation and to continue to cooperate in the government s ongoing criminal investigation. in addition, halliburton made a voluntary critical to $55 million to the national fish and wildlife foundation. that was not conditioned on the court s acceptance of its plea agreement. that information just coming in. we ll take a quick break. when we come back [ male announcer ] if you re taking multiple medications, ....
Collapsing as did bp s deep water horizon rig 2 1/2 years ago. black he will o clock energy sent this showing the section of pipe being cut when the fire started. the oil, the platform was confirmed shut in before before they started work. nonproduction platform at the time. several of those workers medivaced to la will being treated for severe burns and the latest word from the coast guard, they are still searching for the two missing workers. i read this is a far different type of operation than the deep water horizon. yeah, very different. same gulf of mexico, the one is shallow operation, another is deep water operation. the deep water horizon rig, which exploded 2 1/2 years ago, that was an exploratory rig. that struck when workers were trying to cap that well head to come back later for oil pumping. ....
Lift a 27-year moratorium on drilling up the east and west coast. year-and-a-half later, even the new president seemed to jump on the bandwagon. we still need more oil and more gas. if we have some in the united states we can use, we should find it and do so in an environmentally sustainable way. since then, nothing, not a single drop of oil from the 85 billion off the outer continental shelf. why? after the deep water horizon disaster, the president took new offshore drilling off the table. except for a small area in the gulf of mexico. house republicans are determined to change that. their bill would require the administration to open 50% of offshore areas that contain the most oil and gas. areas you see if green. governor of states in the blue areas could opt in. the federal government would establish production targets, 3 million-barrels of oil a day. three times more than we produce today. we would probably have enough oil to actually drive our 60 million vehicles for 25 ....
Really wanted to give them back or willing to give them back after they were sort of called on it. bonuses for safety in the year when this disaster happened seemed bizarre. it s unthinkable. you know, they still have a chance to do the right thing. these people now, sense they re not getting paid to clean up the oil, the hotels are empty along the coast, it s desperate for the people. they could step in here and do that. they could put a couple billion up front, and let us clean our coastline, check the health of the people and do the things we need to do to stop the deterioration of the marsh. they re clearly not doing it. it s a dog and pony show. you saw it yourself. it s not happening. they didn t take care of the families or the workers that survived. and they re not taking care of their mess. james, when we talked to kevin costner today, one of the things he was telling me is he wasn t sure that there was sort of the will of the people, which ....