The tragic Deepwater Horizon explosion was depicted in the 2016 movie by the same name ...

Rachel Maddow reflects on Deepwater Horizon, after Trump approved plans from the company behind the oil spill, BP, to build ...

April 20 marks the 15th anniversary of the blowout and subsequent spill at the Macondo well off the Mississippi River’s mouth in the Gulf. The Deepwater Horizon rig, owned by Transocean and operated ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In April 2010, a state-of-the-art ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleanup workers try to scoop up all the toxic globs on Pensacola Beach from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Now BP is back ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster became the worst marine oil spill in American history. NOAA Early one ...

The White House announced today that all new deepwater drilling will require environmental reviews. What’s that you say? You assume an activity as transparently fraught with danger and risk as ...

The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to help produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.

A law that led to a $100 million fine after Deepwater Horizon is on shakier ground under President Donald Trump. Emily L. Mahoney is the energy reporter. Reach her at emahoney@tampabay.com. Max ...

FILE - The nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project along the Mississippi River, intended to stave off coastal land loss in southeastern Louisiana, is seen during a flyover with the ...