With the well capped and surface oil fast disappearing from the Gulf of Mexico, the response to the BP spill seems ready to move to a new phase—and possibly a less intense one. Right now BP is ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after BP’s devastating Gulf oil spill, the only cleanup worker to successfully sue the oil giant over his chronic medical condition is filing a new lawsuit, this time ...

White House facing questions about why it isn’t taking more control over situation. A contractor operates an oil skimmer near a marsh impacted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Pass a Loutre, La ...

Basic goods and services are being sold to BP at 20 times the regular price. April 17, 2011— -- The massive BP oil spill that devastated the Gulf Coast has turned out to be an economic boon for ...

Forty-six days later, the oil spill is still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on whose estimate you trust, somewhere between 22 million and 200 million gallons of oil are now in the water.

CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING OUT $65 ...

Alex threatens to stall cleanup -- Miss. Gov. says his state is at risk. June 28, 2010— -- Just weeks ago, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour claimed that oil was not a big threat to the people of ...

The BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is an incalculable tragedy and there is absolutely no silver lining about it. But if there were anything to at least laugh at, bitterly, in this mess, it’s BP CEO ...

Last summer, Erika Nyquist — a University of Montana student — got certified to handle hazardous materials and headed down to Louisiana to find a job on the BP oil spill cleanup. “They wouldn’t take ...