The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

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

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.

NEW ORLEANS — Sunday marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, when a massive explosion on a BP-operated oil rig claimed 11 lives and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history.

CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING ...

Cleanup workers who became ill after Deepwater Horizon oil spill are suing BP for compensation About 4 million barrels of crude oil seeped into the Gulf of Mexico and 11 people died in the April ...

“Fifteen years after the BP oil disaster, the scars still linger ... Near the end of SPILL, the documentary play, Fondakowski quotes a local contractor – Jorey Danos – explaining how he ...

“After the spill you could ride a hundred miles and not see a bait ball … It slowly died.” Fireboat crews work to extinguish the burning wreckage of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platfor ...

the effects of the nation's worst offshore oil spill are still being felt. Oil company BP paid billions of dollars in damages, propelling ambitious coastal restoration projects across five states.

The BP disaster is still the largest marine oil spill in history. In the months after, local lawmakers, like then-state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, were sounding the alarm on how bad it was.

The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 people ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf ... a cleanup crew tasked with containing the spill for BP. “But I couldn’t stop her — they ...