Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

Opposition is growing to the Trump administration’s plan to expand offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, including from some unlikely quarters. The conservationist nonprofit Friends of the ...

A law that led to a $100 million fine after Deepwater Horizon is on shakier ground under President Donald Trump. Emily L. Mahoney is the energy reporter. Reach her at emahoney@tampabay.com. Max ...

After one state agency declared the Nov. 18 Sisar Creek oil spill cleaned up, another state agency — the oil and gas regulatory agency, Geologic Energy Management Division or CalGEM — found oil from ...

Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster became the worst marine oil spill in American history. NOAA Early one ...

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

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 ...

If there’s any upside to the Trump administration’s newly unveiled plan to allow oil drilling off the West Coast of Florida for the first time in decades, it’s this: The pushback against this bad idea ...

The Trump administration is proposing to open a large area of Florida's Gulf coast to offshore oil drilling. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposes the plan, citing a 2020 Trump memorandum that protected ...