White House puts pressure on BP, as BP denies responsibility for spill accident. May 3, 2010 — -- With the White House putting pressure on BP today, company executives promised to clean up the ...

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

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 ...

Democratic strategist James Carville calls on Obama to address the nation. BURAS, La. May 31, 2010— -- As BP prepares to launch its seventh and riskiest plan to halt the flow of oil into the Gulf ...

Forty-six days later, the oil spill is still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on whose estimate you trust, somewhere between 22 million and 200 million gallons of oil are now in the water.

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 ...