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

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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...