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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...