Debbie Elliott
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-20-2025 3PM EDT
In the dark of the night on April 20, 2010, oil and gas erupted from a BP well nearly a mile deep in the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana. It caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to explode and catch fire, killing 11 rig workers and injuring more than a dozen others.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-20-2025 3PM EDT
Oil spewed unchecked from the Gulf floor for nearly three months, killing wildlife, polluting beaches and devastating Gulf Coast businesses. Investigations and court rulings put the blame on a tragic series of safety failures. BP has paid some $70 billion in judgments and settlements and for cleanup and restoration projects, which are still underway 15 years later. Debbie Elliott, NPR News.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-07-2025 2PM EST
Protesters were starting a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand equal voting rights on March 7, 1965. But they were stopped on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge by state troopers wielding batons and tear gas. Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell of Selma says what took place there changed the face of American politics.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-07-2025 2PM EST
Sewell has introduced a bill to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in 2013. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Selma.