people have heard of this spill and the biggest spill until now have been the deepwater horizon exxon valdez like you said and taylor energy spill is a largely unknown outside of louisiana because of the company's efforts to keep it a secret and the reason that they try to keep it secret is because they said it was they were trying to protect their reputation and their proper terry information but as it turns out taylor energy has been quietly leaking oil off the coast of louisiana for fourteen years now and now according to a new report by the washington post it threatens to overtake the deepwater horizon spill as the biggest offshore disaster and now it estimates that about ten thousand to thirty thousand gallons of oil will is leaking now into the gulf of mexico from the spill. and so how did this happen it's an old good and old well or something that's leaking well in two thousand and four when hurricane ivan slammed into the gulf of mexico it created an underwater mudslide that collapsed one of taylor energy's oil platforms and the platform fell about four hundred fifty feet deep of wat

gas thanks for years and we you know i thought when i was back in the day before you were born exxon valdez that was going to be the worst thing and then we saw deepwater horizon but then i wake up and there is this breaking news today about this oil spill that's been going on since two thousand and four what do we know that's correct not many people have heard of this spill and the biggest spill until now have been the deepwater horizon exxon valdez like you said and taylor energy spill is a largely unknown outside of louisiana because of the company's efforts to keep it a secret and the reason that they try to keep it secret is because they said it was they were trying to protect their reputation and their proper terry information but as it turns out taylor energy has been quietly leaking oil off the coast of louisiana for fourteen years now and now according to a new report by the washington post it threatens to overtake the deepwater horizon spill as the biggest offshore disaster and now it estimates that about ten thousand to thirty thousand gallons of oil will is leaking now into the

people are used to heararing about oil spills from ththe "exxon v valdez" o or abot the recent spill in the gulf of mexico that brititish petreum mn illing provokeked. you're talking about a whole differenent set of problems. how do they compmpare with thosese big spills? micah: it's a great question. i think we all get our attention awn to the big dramatic moment. explosion of an oil rig, the sinking of a giant oil tanker. but in fact, over time, if you look at the total cumulative effect of that, it's only about 20% of the oil that goes into the ocean frfrom human sources. the much larger component is this relar, everyday, intentional dumping overboard, getting rid of oil, waste products, sludge. ships--commerciaial ships tend o burn very low-grade oil, and thatat produces this messy slud. and the question is, what do you do w with that? well, by law, you're supposed to bring it to port, you're supposed to offload it. it takes t time, it takes money, it takes energy to properly dispose of this stuff. or, if you're not trying to obey the law,ou can jusust dump it overboard, which th

unabomb's case, he killed thomas mosesier in new jersey because he believed that his firm had done the exxon-valdez publicity campaign to clear up their reputation after that horrendous environmental spill. that was not the case. but he believed they did because he read it in a particular periodical. >> interesting. max noel, juliette, art, thank you so much. "outfront" next, new details about what exactly is in the bombs. small battery, digital clocks. were they meant to explode? >>> plus, the president believes he's being unfairly linked to these bombs sent to his frequent rhetorical targets. he's digging in on his tone tonight. >>> and a member of trump's evangelical counsel on how the president could be handling this crisis. stay with us. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried cold turkey, i tried the patch. they didn't work for me. i didn't think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. i needed that to quit. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicoti