In response, Florida voters banned drilling in state waters. During his first term, President Donald Trump used his authority to prevent further drilling in the Southeast, including off Florida’s Gulf Coast, for a decade. However, the impacts of the BP oil spill on wildlife and fishing are still felt across the Panhandle today.

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most significant shift in U.S. drilling safety practices in decades. Fifteen years later, the 134 million-gallon spill has become one of the most thoroughly studied incidents in the history of the oil and ...

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 huge but the risks are greater than ever. Industry leaders ...

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil leaking to the surface daily, it has become an ...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, while weekly U.S. crude oil production rose to a new high of 13.644 million bpd.