Eight years after the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion, a safety watchdog aims to prevent another disaster. But it faces multiple challenges, and a shift in focus under the Trump administration.

A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff wearing a glove reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., in June 2010. The well ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

The funding for 10 restoration projects is part of cleanup efforts tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. NOAA Fisheries is set to spend more than $210 million on restoration projects in the ...

In 2002, BP’s Ocean King rig suffered a major accident that released highly flammable methane into the ocean. 8 years later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster made it clear that no lessons had been ...

This week’s “Slick Politics” examined the Center for Biological Diversity’s concerns over the permitting process for deep-sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon ...

Uta Passow, a researcher in UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute, spent most of the past year in the Gulf of Mexico analyzing the environmental impact of oil spilled as a result of the ...

Halliburton will plead guilty to a charge of destroying evidence related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. The company will pay the maximum $200,000 statutory fine under ...