July 12 (Reuters) - Millions of gallons/litres of oil have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico since an April 20 explosion on a drilling rig triggered the worst spill in U.S. history. Below is a timeline ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A few months after reaching the largest corporate settlement in U.S. history, BP Plc faces a class action lawsuit in Mexico over its deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which ...

(AP) – Timeline of the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, government response and ensuing legal cases: _ April 20, 2010: An explosion and fire on the BP-operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico. Past ...

Plaintiffs claiming harm from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill pressed a judge Friday to hammer BP, Transocean and Halliburton with punitive damages, insisting that overwhelming evidence shows the ...

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While the world’s attention has been fixed on the nuclear crisis in Japan, we’re fast coming upon the one-year anniversary of another major environmental disaster: the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

When we last checked in on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a cap had stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf. That cap has held and much of the oil on the surface has dissolved. But this is hardly ...

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is already wreaking devastating ecological effects. So does that mean that now is the time for Democrats to argue for climate change legislation and a reduction to our ...

Using microphones submerged 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have learned that whale and dolphin populations were still declining 10 years after the Deepwater Horizon oil ...