US govt top oil spill official speaks exclusively to Reuters

Energy Secretary and Nobel laureate Steven Chu has given few interviews since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began in April despite — or perhaps because of — his role as the de facto top governmental scientist overseeing the BP response. He broke news in a rare interview with Reuters on June 11 by saying BP’s latest moves to increase the amount of captured oil had not made the spill dramatically worse, as some scientists feared. He also expressed optimism that safety measures could be put in place that would lead to an eventual lifting of the moratorium on deepwater drilling, which is hurting the Gulf in ways that are almost as crippling as the spill itself. The U.S. network NBC led their evening newscast with the news