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 ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

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According to University of Stirling researchers led by Dr Sabine Matallana-Surget, a chemical typically present in sunscreen ...

A bill essentially abolishing Brazils environmental licensing system is just days away from likely passage by the countrys ...

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.

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

Cleanup workers who became ill after Deepwater Horizon oil spill are suing BP for compensation About 4 million barrels of crude oil seeped into the Gulf of Mexico and 11 people died in the April ...

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British oil giant Shell on Thursday denied media reports that it is in talks to buy rival BP. The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday said Shell was holding “early stage talks,″ to ...