Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

April 20, 2010, 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, an explosion on an oil rig would change life along the Gulf of America ...

But work carried out nearby the ill-fated rig has sent BP back for more in an audacious project that holds the promise of vast profits. Four years before the pressure blowout that destroyed ...

We're losing thousands of acres each year. It didn't start with the BP blowout, but the oil has made matters worse, killing marsh grasses and other front-line vegetation that helps to hold our ...

Fifty miles offshore, a mile underwater on the seafloor, BP's Macondo well was spewing something like an Exxon Valdez every four days. In late April an explosive blowout of the well had turned the ...

Deepwater Horizon — an ultra-deepwater drilling platform that BP leased from the drilling company Transocean — was completing a new well in the 1,600-m-deep Mississippi Canyon area when a ...

The money is from BP’s $8.8 billion settlement for natural resources damage caused by the blowout that killed 11 men and spewed more than 100 million gallons (380 million liters) of oil into the ...