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

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

The BP Deepwater Horizon spill forced massive job losses and damage to ecosystems and wildlife and nearly put a Gulf boat ...

Much has changed in the Gulf Coast region in the years since the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill. In this piece, ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster ultimately led to the largest environmental settlement in U.S. history. While BP was deemed ...

The memory of that catastrophe 15 years ago this week — and its lingering associations with death, contamination and fear — ...

Lives and coastal communities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida were changed forever on April 20, 2010, when the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean ...

An investigation by The Associated Press previously found all but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems linked to the oil spill have been dismissed and only ...

FILE - The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010, following an explosion that killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in the nation’s history.