They're very important in oil spills.

So we know from previous spills.

No one was interested in oil spills.

Makes you cry while the milk still spills

I spent two years there writing on oil spills.

You're killing my ecosystem with fishing and oil spills

What if someone accidentally spills scolding hot coffee on you?

This is why these moments of these oil spills are so important.

And I was the only one in the United States writing on oil spills.

Early journalists looked at these spills, and they said, This is a filthy industry.

So the thing about water oil spills is that they are very politically galvanizing.

And so they know now that they can use this strategy in future oil spills.

Why are we drilling for more oil, when it's polluting the atmosphere and causing oil spills?

If fighting spills beyond Syria's borders, these weapons could threaten allies like Turkey, Jordan and Israel.

There's oil spills, environmental disasters, water rights disputes, breakaway republics, famine, endangered species and global warming.

We tend to think of oil spills and mercury and we hear a lot about plastic these days.

I mean, we've essentially been exporting oil spills when we import oil from places without tight environmental regulations.

So in these six years between these two oil spills, they've built thousands of these well ventilated boxes.

And her tribe has had to move three times in the last 10 years because of the oil spills.

Instead of industrial accidents like oil spills or the catastrophe in Bhopal, we find them, and we respond to them.

Prudhoe Bay in Alaska in 2002 to watch the Minerals Management Service testing their ability to burn oil spills in ice.

And so with all these crises, we have let's see ethnic and minority tensions we have chemical and nuclear spills, nuclear proliferation.

One of the things that happened with the two previous oil spills was that we really worked on some of the symptoms.

So I'm going to talk to you about you about the political chemistry of oil spills and why this is an incredibly important,

Over, and over, and over, again.

Say over. Over.

And we can wrap our heads around the spills, because that's what we see here, but in fact, these guys actually live in a war zone.

This repeats over and over and over.

Over there, over there!

Over and over again.

They'll play it over, and over, and over.

You do it over and over and over.

It's not over! It's not over! It's not over!

And they've tried over and over and over again.

Its over, its finally over.

Over and over I hear,

It's over, Johnny. It's over!

When it's over, it's over.

And we're seeing it over and over and over again.

One over here, 2 over here, and 4 over here.

I'd seen it happen over and over and over again.

And I see it over and over and over again.

Pull over to the curb over there. Right over there.

Over.

Over.