Sep 5, 2006
BP on hot seat next week
"The U.S. Congress comes back to town next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska. With hearings planned in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, officials with BP Plc. -- the London-based oil giant that operates the field -- will be taking heat from irate lawmakers, already suspicious of the industry's spotty environmental record." The end of the video clip is very funny. » original news