Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

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

South Louisiana marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill this week. Why it matters: The spill remains the largest ...

Dr. Ben Meadows, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, vividly recalls the night of ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Yet cleanup workers and local residents who suffered health impacts they attribute to the oil spill have struggled to have their cases heard in court and few have received significant compensation.

An investigation by The Associated Press previously found all but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems linked to the oil spill have been dismissed and only ...

the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt. Conservation groups say the spill catalyzed innovative restoration work across the Gulf Coast, but are alarmed at the recent ...