A Houston company faces a record $9.6 million in federal fines for its role in a major oil spill that mystified experts and ...

It’s been four years since the BP Deep Water Horizon disaster where an oil rig explosion in the Gulf killed 11 workers and triggered the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. This brought upon $1.3 ...

NEW ORLEANS — The BP spill is by far the world’s largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to the most precise estimates yet of the well’s flow rate, announced by federal ...

Obama makes third visit to the stricken Gulf Coast; BP adjusts cap over the gusher. Gregory Dawkins, 10, from Leeds, Ala., picks up a glob of oil with a stick on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala. Friday.

Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly Sunday to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, due to a suspected leak in an underwater ...

Some residents, business owners and environmentalists questioned whether authorities reacted quickly enough to contain one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, caused by a suspected ...