Pipeline safety regulators on Monday assessed their largest fine ever against the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in 2023. But the ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Clean Gulf Associates 95-foot response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration is touting a planned $9.6 million civil penalty against Panther Operating Co. Federal regulators announced a record proposed fine Monday for alleged violations of pipeline ...

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 ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

When we last checked in on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a cap had stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf. That cap has held and much of the oil on the surface has dissolved. But this is hardly ...