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.

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 ...

On June 17, 2010, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on "The Role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill," during which then-BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward ...

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 ...

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.

The BP oil spill affected fish in the Gulf of Mexico in different ways. Some showed clear signs of oil exposure, with many reef fish developing skin lesions in 2011.

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.

When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of ...

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 ...

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 ...