April 20 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, ...

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 ...

The Gulf of Mexico was forever changed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil contamination decimated marine life, from ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s been 15 years since the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, taking the lives of 11 workers ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say they are going to examine whether the last-resort cutoff valves on offshore oil wells are reliable enough in light of the explosion and massive oil spill in ...

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s ...