With the well capped and surface oil fast disappearing from the Gulf of Mexico, the response to the BP spill seems ready to move to a new phase—and possibly a less intense one. Right now BP is ...

The BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is an incalculable tragedy and there is absolutely no silver lining about it. But if there were anything to at least laugh at, bitterly, in this mess, it’s BP CEO ...

In response, Florida voters banned drilling in state waters. During his first term, President Donald Trump used his authority ...

Some $25 billion is headed to the five Gulf states that were devastated in the 2010 BP oil disaster. Just a fraction of the government fines and court settlements have been paid — but not all of it ...

Alex threatens to stall cleanup -- Miss. Gov. says his state is at risk. June 28, 2010— -- Just weeks ago, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour claimed that oil was not a big threat to the people of ...

CAMINADA HEADLAND, La. - Cleanup after the BP oil spill has turned up dozens of sites where archaeologists are finding human and animal bones, pottery and primitive weapons left behind by prehistoric ...

GRAND ISLE, La. — BP said Thursday it plans to increase the amount of oil captured from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico by early next week as the Obama administration announced that the oil ...

Forty-six days later, the oil spill is still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on whose estimate you trust, somewhere between 22 million and 200 million gallons of oil are now in the water.

Basic goods and services are being sold to BP at 20 times the regular price. April 17, 2011— -- The massive BP oil spill that devastated the Gulf Coast has turned out to be an economic boon for ...

Wildlife in the path of the Gulf oil spill are clearly going to pay for human error: will British Petroleum, the company using the oil rig, pay too? That's a question environmentalists, investors, and ...