Sometimes, the news is good. Not long ago, I found myself trudging through a gloomy collection of headlines when a piece of ...

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 new federal office will undo a change made after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Critics say it could reduce environmental oversight. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Opponents of the project, ...

A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington; the University of Nevada, Reno; Mokwon University in Daejeon, Korea; and Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi ...

When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea. Workers involved in the cleanup were exposed to crude ...

BP potentially faces billions of dollars in new fines after a New Orleans judge concluded it acted with “gross negligence” ahead of the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal court judge Carl ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

The black outline shows the estimated impacted area (1100 square miles) of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, significantly larger than previously reported areas (red and blue outlines). Graphic ...

Louisiana's Republican U.S. senator blasted oil giant BP PLC on Tuesday for what he called its attempt to run from its full cleanup responsibilities for the nation's worst offshore spill, the 2010 ...