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

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

Dr. Ben Meadows, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, vividly recalls the night of ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico ...

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, drilling at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and later ...

Lives and coastal communities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida were changed forever on April 20, 2010, when the ...

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 ...

Much has changed in the Gulf Coast region in the years since the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill. In this piece, ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons ...

The Department of Interior Thursday released an analysis of fossil fuel deposits showing an additional 1.30 billion barrels ...

Conservation groups say the spill catalyzed innovative restoration ... a blood cancer that can be caused by exposure to oil. Oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico southeast of Venice on Louisiana's ...

An investigation by The Associated Press previously found all but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems linked to the oil spill have been dismissed and only ...