Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded, killing 11 people and igniting one of the worst environmental disasters in modern history. A pelican and a Northern gannet were the ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The fatal incident took place on a semi-submersible oil drilling rig where a team of six had been ...

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to “unleash American energy” will have a dramatic effect on Alabama’s coastline, with new programs that will almost certainly increase the number of rigs off the state’s ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. Trump administration plan would move oil drilling closer to Florida. Crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico after ...

BP's shoddy risk assessment and poor communication played a major role in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and deaths of 11 rig workers last April, a presidential commission says in a ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

It has been reported that the Trump administration is ready to allow drilling off the California coast. One has only to remember January 1969, when one of the worst environmental disasters in ...