As the oil continued to spew from the leak in the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico, the public weighed in with their ideas on possible solutions for stopping the flow. These ideas and the challenges of plugging the leak...

In this video segment adapted from 'Need to Know,' meet a fisherman who became a cleanup worker on the 2010 BP oil spill and then developed health problems. Learn about concern over the health and safety of cleanup workers because of the...

A discussion of the widespread impact the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was expected to have on local ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. Aired May 7, 2010 [12:27]