For as long as there has been an oil industry, there have been oil spills. They're caused by a number of factors, from ...

The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

A U.S. Coast Guard-led operation has contained an oil well's uncontrolled discharge into Louisiana's Garden Island Bay after ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three ...

Since the incident was first reported near Garden Island Bay on April 26, responders have deployed 20,300 feet of containment ...

April 20 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial ...

An investigation by The Associated Press previously found all but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems linked to the oil spill have been dismissed and only ...

Yet cleanup workers and local residents who suffered health impacts they attribute to the oil spill have struggled to have their cases heard in court and few have received significant compensation.

As the Trump administration expands offshore oil and gas, they are concerned the best opportunities for rebuilding the Gulf Coast are slipping away. Tying health problems to the spill remains hard ...