June 16, 2010 – BP agrees to create a $20 billion fund to help victims affected by the oil spill. July 5, 2010 – Authorities report that tar balls linked to the oil spill have reached the ...

How many chances should you give a bad actor? A screw-up? A company that fouled the ocean and the coast and killed lots of ...

Government's Thad Allen says BP 'very close' to stopping oil once and for all. July 12, 2010— -- BP has successfully lowered a new containment cap onto its leaking well, its latest attempt to ...

NEW YORK -- BP's multibillion-dollar settlement with people and businesses harmed by its 2010 oil spill removes some uncertainty about the potential financial damages it faces. It also may help ...

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian report Florida's DEP denied an oil drilling permit after community ...

Where recovery efforts stand 15 years after BP oil spill Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico.

Eleven lives lost, a coast in crisis and businesses threatened. The BP oil spill happened 15 years ago. Sign up for our Newsletters It is still considered one of the worst environmental disasters ...

On Oct. 6, 2010, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, established by President Obama to investigate the "facts and circumstances concerning the root ...

By Mongabay.com Oil-soaked pelicans struggling to fly came to symbolize the catastrophic impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the inhabitants of the Gulf of Mexico. Fifteen years ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal judge in New Orleans granted final approval Monday to an estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of ...

Included in the information Mix allegedly deleted, according to court documents, were estimates that oil was flowing at a rate of 15,000 barrels per day. "At the time, BP's public estimate of the ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can ...