BP announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into the Gulf of ...

April 21, 2010: U.S. Coast Guard fireboats battle the ferocious blaze caused by an explosion the previous day that killed 11 workers and launched the worst maritime oil spill in history.

10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed. Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are ...

Global energy giant BP agreed today to pay $373 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it overcharged U.S. propane consumers by millions ...

Scars still remain from the BP oil spill 15 years later. Skip to content. ... BP PLEADED TO MANSLAUGHTER FOR THE DEATHS IN THE EXPLOSION AND PAID OVER $4 BILLION IN FINES AND PENALTIES.

By Liz Kimbrough PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Saturday marks 14 years since the Mississippi Gulf Coast was changed forever. On April 20, 2010, the Gulf of Mexico saw the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.

John Maas poses for a portrait Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Sparta, Tenn. Thousands of people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick, including Maas.

FILE - Workers use absorbent pads to remove oil that has washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill, June 6, 2010, in Grand Isle, La. When a deadly explosion destroyed BP's Deepwater Horizon ...

BP declined to comment for this story, citing ongoing litigation 14 years after the spill. GETTING SICK. After the explosion on April 20, 2010, the spill was spectacular.

Thousands of ordinary people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick. A court settlement was supposed to help compensate them, but it hasn’t ...