While the world’s attention has been fixed on the nuclear crisis in Japan, we’re fast coming upon the one-year anniversary of another major environmental disaster: the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Clean Gulf Associates 95-foot response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 ...

BP’s costs for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have increased nearly half a billion dollars in the past week, raising the oil giant’s tab to just over $3 billion for work on cleaning and capping ...

It was two years ago today that the Deepwater Horizon—a top-of-the-line offshore drilling rig owned by BP and run by Transocean—experienced a sudden burst of gas from a three-mile long well its crew ...

After a 2023 oil spill that sent more than 4 million litres of crude into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, pipeline safety regulators on Monday proposed their largest fine ever. But for ...

BP won the most acreage in the Dec. 10 Gulf of Mexico lease sale, where companies offered more than $279 million in the first auction of Trump’s second term. The total fell about $100 million short of ...

Pipeline safety regulators on Monday assessed their largest fine ever against the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in 2023. But the ...

BP may not survive the oil leak catastrophe. June 4, 2010— -- There's still no end in sight for the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. But increasingly there appears to be one for the ...