A Houston company faces a record $9.6 million in federal fines for its role in a major oil spill that mystified experts and environmentalists for months following the November 2023 incident. The ...

Every American adult can summon up searing images from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Regulators say the 2023 spill off Louisiana could have been far smaller if risks had been addressed sooner. View on euronews ...

While the world’s attention has been fixed on the nuclear crisis in Japan, we’re fast coming upon the one-year anniversary of another major environmental disaster: the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been a wake-up call for the countries of the Americas — some who fret tar balls could reach their beaches and damage fisheries and others who question the safety of ...

It was two years ago today that the Deepwater Horizon—a top-of-the-line offshore drilling rig owned by BP and run by Transocean—experienced a sudden burst of gas from a three-mile long well its crew ...

Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil fuel ...

In first Oval Office address, president outlines plan to restore Gulf region. WASHINGTON, June 15, 2010 -- With the BP oil spill consuming his presidency, President Obama slammed the oil company for ...

Washington — Oil companies offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57-foot charter boat, “Backdown 2.” The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...