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

The BP oil spill had an immediate and profound impact on the Gulf Coast. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, operated by BP, led to the uncontrolled release of an estimated 210 million gallons ...

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. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE ... BP WAS LIKE A WHOLE NEW ANIMAL FOR US. ON APRIL 20TH, 2010, THE TRANSOCEAN DEEPWATER HORIZON RIG, OPERATED BY OIL GIANT BP EXPLODED ...

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

In December OEFA reported the spill affected ... and vomiting. Oil coats the sandy La Capullana beach north of Talara in late December, 2024. Image courtesy of OEFA. Marine animals, including ...

Fifteen years later, the 134 million-gallon spill has ... on dwindling animal populations, including small dolphins and sperm whales. “Fifteen years after the BP oil disaster, the scars ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ...

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 ...

killing 11 workers and unleashing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. It took 87 days to cap the BP-operated Macondo well, during which time millions of barrels of crude oil poured into ...