NEW YORK (WABC) -- The images are unforgettable. When a B.P. oil rig exploded in 2010, 11 people lost their lives and millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. It is one of the worst ...

Ramanan Krishnamoorti envisions a world where accidents like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be prevented. So more than a year ago, Krishnamoorti and his team at the University of Houston ...

Uta Passow, a researcher in UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute, spent most of the past year in the Gulf of Mexico analyzing the environmental impact of oil spilled as a result of the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Shelley Anderson, whose husband was one of 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, made a New Year’s resolution to try to avoid crying in front of their children. ...

CNN — Bob Dudley, the American chief executive who rescued BP from its Deepwater Horizon disaster, is stepping down. BP said Friday that Dudley, 64, would retire at the end of March 2020 after 40 ...

NEW ORLEANS-A $1.4 billion settlement between the Justice Department and Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean Ltd. will pump hundreds of millions of dollars into projects designed to help the Gulf ...

WASHINGTON -- As part of the $4 billion settlement announced today between the federal government and BP concerning the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the National Academy of Sciences has been asked ...

If there's one lesson to be learned from the Three Mile Island accident, it's that one player can drag down an entire industry, wrote Mark Mills for Forbes. He called for the offshore drilling ...

The 11 lives lost in the Deepwater Horizon accident figured prominently in the criminal settlement reached between BP and the U.S. Justice Department Thursday. The agreement won't bring them back, but ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration told Transocean Ltd. in a letter this week it was "simply unconscionable" for the drilling firm to try to limit its liability in the Gulf of Mexico oil ...

Teams of workers are mobilizing in the Gulf of Mexico to try to stem a natural gas leak at an offshore drilling rig that exploded and caught fire Tuesday. The rig off the Louisiana coast has been ...