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

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

If you live around the Gulf of Mexico, you already know the significance of April 20. It’s a date with lasting footprints on the beaches along our coast, from Florida to Texas. Fifteen years ago this ...

A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff wearing a glove reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., in June 2010. The well ...

In 2002, BP’s Ocean King rig suffered a major accident that released highly flammable methane into the ocean. 8 years later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster made it clear that no lessons had been ...

Uta Passow, a researcher in UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute, spent most of the past year in the Gulf of Mexico analyzing the environmental impact of oil spilled as a result of the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

Halliburton will plead guilty to a charge of destroying evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The company will pay the maximum $200,000 statutory fine under ...