The Gulf of Mexico was forever changed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil contamination decimated marine life, from ...

BP’s downfall reached its peak with the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Corporate negligence, ignored warnings, and cost-cutting decisions culminated in one of the worst environmental catastrophes in ...

The White House announced today that all new deepwater drilling will require environmental reviews. What’s that you say? You assume an activity as transparently fraught with danger and risk as ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ocean, the ...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been called one of the worst environmental disasters in American history -- and more than six years later, scientists are still investigating how much damage ...

On April 20, 2010, while drilling oil giant BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the crew lost control of the well. There was a "blowout" that released gas and oil, leading to an explosion that ...

Over on the main page, TIME’s Michael Grunwald has a contrarian take on the Gulf oil spill. Far from being the greatest environmental catastrophe in American history—as everyone from President Obama ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...