Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING ...

The BP disaster is still the largest marine oil spill in history. In the months after, local lawmakers, like then-state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, were sounding the alarm on how bad it was.

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the ...

The BP oil spill, which occurred 15 years ago, remains one of the most catastrophic environmental disasters in U.S. history. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, resulted in ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf ... a cleanup crew tasked with containing the spill for BP. “But I couldn’t stop her — they ...