The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds. We thought we’d prevented another one.

The oil drilling platform blew up 15 years ago, triggering the worst single environmental disaster in the nation’s history. A crew member works to clean up oil that washed ashore at Pensacola Beach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the environmental impact is still felt along the Gulf Coast. Settlement money ...

Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In a release, the company said that any future costs ...

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 Deepwater Horizon disaster began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion killed 11 workers and left the Macondo well leaking deep under the Gulf of Mexico. BP tried to stop it with deep-sea robots, a ...

In 2002, BP’s Ocean King rig suffered a major accident that released highly flammable methane into the ocean. 8 years later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster made it clear that no lessons had been ...

Samples of oil taken from a sheen above the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil rig and BP's Macondo 252 well matches oil released from the well during the 2010 spill, the U.S. Coast Guard ...

If you live around the Gulf of Mexico, you already know the significance of April 20. It’s a date with lasting footprints on the beaches along our coast, from Florida to Texas. Fifteen years ago this ...