From poisoned workers to vanishing wetlands, the truth about BP’s toxic legacy in Louisiana is worse than you remember. Here’s what they buried.

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt. Cleanup workers and local residents who suffered ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the environmental impact is still felt along the Gulf Coast. Settlement money is also nearing an end, leaving states like Louisiana searching ...

Controversy over coastal restoration The environmental impact was devastating, recalled PJ Hahn, who served on the frontlines as a southeast Louisiana coastal management official.

Smoke rises from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 21, 2010, a day after it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in the worst offshore spill in U.S. history.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (507.2 million liters) of crude gushing into the ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the environmental impact is still felt along the Gulf Coast. Settlement money is also nearing an end, leaving states like Louisiana searching ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the environmental impact is still felt along the Gulf Coast. Settlement money is also nearing an end, leaving states like Louisiana searching ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Lasting impacts and lingering questions 15 years later By Rebekah F. Ward, Staff writer April 20, 2025 ...

Those memories linger. A 2021 study on the lasting impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster focused not only on the physical damage but on the mental and psychological damage.

April 20, 2010, was the beginning of an 87-day environmental disaster that would leach an estimated 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.