Officials now say that it may be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands affected by the massive oil spill. John Hofmeister, a former president of Shell Oil who now runs the public policy firm Citizens for Affordable Energy, agrees that BP's Beyond Petroleum campaign complicates matters. As Boeing prepares to submit its software fix for the MCAS system to the FAA for the agency to conduct test flights and ultimately recertify the plane, which could happen within the next couple of weeks, both Carey and Sullenberger called for more robust pilot training as part of the plan for allowing 737 Max jets to fly passengers again, including experiencing an MCAS system failure while training on a simulator. "We should all want pilots to experience these challenging situations for the first time in a simulator, not in flight with passengers and crew on board," Sullenberger told lawmakers, adding that "reading about it on an iPad is not even close to sufficient. BP has agreed to display a live video feed of the oil gusher on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee's website beginning Thursday evening. Louisiana Gov. With him, from left: Stephanie Finley and Jim Letten, U.S. attorneys for the Western District of Louisiana; Ignacia Moreno, assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division; Tony West, assistant attorney general, Civil Division; and Don Burkhalter, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. Greenpeace and other advocacy groups think it's more effective to try to roll back offshore drilling than to target individual oil companies. "It's not as linear as we might like to think," Davies says, because most people assume there's a metaphorical pipeline that runs from BP wells to BP stations. "Unfortunately in the case of the Max, I'll have to agree with the Boeing CEO, they let the traveling public down in a fatal and catastrophic way.". Boeing has suggested such training could be accomplished with a one-hour session on a laptop or tablet device. 'Sully' Sullenberger Testifies That Boeing 737 Max Was "Fatally Flawed" "Sully" Sullenberger, who landed a plane on the Hudson River in 2009, … The consumer watchdog Public Citizen also has stepped into the fray, with an online petition that asks people to "send a clear message to BP by boycotting its gas and retail store products" for what it calls the company's history of negligence.
"These crashes are demonstrable evidence that our current system of aircraft design and certification failed us," Sullenberger told lawmakers. Tendrils of oil mar the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in this satellite image taken Monday. That's it," he says.

As for getting people to focus on non-gas products at BP's convenience store chain, ampm, "that's tough," says Greenpeace's Davies. Oil clouds the surface of Barataria Bay near Port Sulpher, La., on June 19. The oil came inland despite oil booms that were placed at the wetlands' mouth on the Gulf of Mexico. Carey told the committee that the MCAS flight control system, which was designed to prevent an aerodynamic stall, was flawed in that it had a single point of failure without redundancies. Pelican eggs stained with oil sit in a nest on an island in Barataria Bay on May 22. One big reason is that it's hard to hit BP by boycotting individual filling stations, says Kert Davies, Greenpeace's point person on the oil industry. Directed by Frank Launder. "Even knowing what was going to happen, I could see how crews could have run out of time and altitude before they could have solved the problems," he said. BP also will have a tough time repairing its public image, especially because of its efforts to brand itself green. The latest attempt to plug the leak was unsuccessful. The planes remain out of service as aviation authorities around the world grounded the planes shortly after the second crash. Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen's Energy Program. "We're saying that offshore drilling is dirty and dangerous and that the BP spill is just another example of that," said Anna Aurilio, who works on oil industry issues for Environment America, one of a dozen or so environmental groups that have called for an official ban on drilling. Members of the Louisiana National Guard build a land bridge at the mouth of wetlands on Elmer's Island. Boycotts can also be too effective. A brown pelican sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast after being drenched in oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, June 3. Protesters cover themselves with a water and paint mixture during a demonstration at a BP gas station in New York City on May 28. "Suddenly, you have to say that BP is ampm … [and] you're talking about a shrinking audience the further you get away from the brand they know.". "The final fatal mistake was therefore the absence of robust pilot training in the event of an MCAS failure.".

People critical of oil giant BP demonstrated outside an ARCO station during a rally earlier this month in Los Angeles. He went house to house with an armed guard of 18 police officers. "They don't make a lot of money selling their own gasoline to their own stations.". "A huge error of omission was the fact that Boeing failed to disclose the existence of the MCAS system to the pilot community around the world," Carey said. Nicholas says he isn't aware of a boycott-related impact so far on any BP-branded gas stations. The event was staged across the nation to protest offshore oil drilling. In this aerial photo taken April 21 more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. Sullenberger, who safely landed a damaged US Airways jet on the Hudson River in New York in 2009 after a bird strike disabled the engines, says he understands how the pilots of two 737 Max planes that recently crashed would have been confused as they struggled to maintain control of the aircraft, as an automated system erroneously began forcing the planes into nosedives. You've got to give [the company] a very clear understanding of the consequences: what are you asking for, what is the exit ramp. "The accidents should never have happened.". With Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Alastair Sim. "People don't pick gas based on brand," she says. Sullenberger agreed, saying it's unlikely that more experienced pilots would have had different outcomes, adding, "we shouldn't have to expect pilots to compensate for flawed designs.

Capt. A boat uses a boom and absorbent material to soak up oil in Cat Bay, near Grand Isle, La., on June 28. T.J. Jemison, were the leaders of the bus boycott, which began June 20, 1953. In any case, boycotts are "a very loaded tactic -- it's a hammer," Davies says. Carey says Boeing's failures have created a "crisis of trust" between the airplane-maker and pilots. Plaquemines Parish coastal zone director P.J. Recent research backs that up. We want to send a message that a company cannot just purchase an image that it is socially conscious. A tropical storm is expected to hit the Gulf and impede cleanup efforts. "Some (U.S.) crews would have recognized it in time to recover, but some would not have," Carey testified. Davies points to the 1960's grape boycott led by activist Cesar Chavez to highlight migrant workers' low pay and poor working conditions as an example. Captain Boycott (1947) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Since the Deepwater disaster, the Obama administration has called a halt to new drilling. Officials closed the oil-covered beaches to the public indefinitely on Saturday.