Other states were harder hit by the spill, but Texas is still receiving millions of dollars that can be used for vital restoration efforts
Two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, research is turning up ailing fish bearing diseases.
Transocean has blamed BP for decisions that led to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.
Greenpeace’s <i>Kumi Naidoo</i> writes from a prison in Greenland about the effect deep water drilling in the Arctic could have on climate change.
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to do "whatever is necessary" to restore the Gulf Coast on the anniversary of the BP rig explosion.
When an oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last April, authorities reported that no crude was leaking into the sea. They were wrong.
The April 20 anniversary of the BP oil spill is a reminder of the high costs of our energy needs and the consequences of cutting corners on safety.
BP on Tuesday posted its first annual loss in almost two decades as a result of last year’s devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
A commission investigating the Gulf oil spill found decisions intended to save time and money created an unreasonable amount of risk.
BP’s bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill has reached nearly $10-billion.
United States officials have finally declared BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico "dead", five months after a deadly oil-rig blast.
BP sought to spread the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster on Wednesday, setting off a battle of oil-industry giants.
Scientists have mapped a 35km plume of oil droplets from BP’s rogue well in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.
President Barack Obama on Saturday reassured Americans that the government will stand by coastal residents as a massive clean-up forges ahead.
BP will proceed with a relief well to kill its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, the top US spill official said on Friday.
The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to reopen more than three months after crude began gushing from the sea floor.
An end to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster was in sight on Wednesday as BP plugged its runaway well.
BP claimed "a significant milestone" on Wednesday in efforts to plug for good the well that has spewed millions of barrels of oil.
BP was still hoping to attempt the first of two operations to permanently plug its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well on Tuesday.
BP could start plugging its oil well on Monday night, more than three months after its rupture led to the worst offshore oil spill in US history.
