The Deepwater Horizon spill remains one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. More than 15 years later, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Donald Vidrine, one of two BP supervisors on the Deepwater Horizon when the drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has died in Louisiana at age 69. Robert Habans, an ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff wearing a glove reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., in June 2010. The well ...

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

This week’s “Slick Politics” examined the Center for Biological Diversity’s concerns over the permitting process for deep-sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon ...

In their decades in the field, the two have served as arbiters of value across funds for many of the biggest tragedies in recent history. Since Feinberg established the compensation fund for victims ...

Uta Passow, a researcher in UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute, spent most of the past year in the Gulf of Mexico analyzing the environmental impact of oil spilled as a result of the ...