The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

Why so many in the gulf? A combination of geology and politics has focused the domestic oil industry there. After the catastrophic Santa Barbara, Calif., oil spill ... just to map a potential ...

BP Gulf Oil Spill April 20, 2010 – An explosion occurs aboard BP-contracted Transocean Ltd Deepwater Horizon oil rig stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. Of the 126 workers aboard the oil rig ...

They showed its vast, curving shore on a map they presented ... 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it says. The first, massive oil spill happened ...

Wildlife on the River Wandle have been covered in oil after a diesel spill Merton Council has warned the public to avoid the River Wandle after a major diesel spill polluted the "at-risk" south ...