Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of ...

The BP oil spill happened 15 years ago. It is still considered one of the worst environmental disasters this country has ever seen. The oil giant paid out $65 billion in cleanup costs, charges and ...

Biodegradation is an important natural process during oil spill cleanup. A new study revealed that using spill treating agents does not negatively impact naturally occurring biodegradation.

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Using spill-treating agents to clean up oil spills does not significantly hinder naturally occurring oil biodegradation, ...

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

Memories of the 2010 explosion and spill that killed 11 workers and dumped 134 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico ...

State legislature needs to pass legislation to increase funding, and oil and gas companies need to participate in remediation ...

Colombia's oil industry is facing new scandals involving environmental misdeeds, unreported oil spills, and human rights violations, with allegations against the national oil company Ecopetrol ...

Daniel Green/Noozhawk photo The pipeline in question, CA-324, is the same line that ruptured in 2015 and caused the Refugio spill that dumped 123,000 gallons of oil onto the coast and into the ocean.

which has endured extensive damage from oil spills over the years. He said, “With 355 of the 363 grids already cleared and certified, the ground is now set for full-scale restoration to begin.