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An oil leak caused by an over 8-year-old-well spewed into a Louisiana marshland for a week. Responders are now beginning the ...
The University of Southern Mississippi has had researchers involved since the early stages of the 2010 disaster.
Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the ...
In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.
The memory of that catastrophe 15 years ago this week — and its lingering associations with death, contamination and fear — ...
The Coast Guard on Friday said more than 165 responders are working with the Unified Command—which includes the Coast Guard and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office—in the containment ...
Oceanic oil spills are one of the worst events humanity can inflict upon the natural world. Whether it's from an oil rig's mishap or deliberate wartime actions, oil being dumped into the ocean ...
Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the response to a major oil spill off Louisiana's Gulf Coast this week ...
ABC13 learned more about restoration efforts happening more than a decade after the oil rig exploded in the Gulf, killing 11 people and spilling millions of barrels of oil.