Oil Spill News

Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing investigations of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tar mats photographed on the beach at Elmer's Island in September 2012, a few days after Hurricane Isaac.

Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Justice Department prosecutors secured new indictments Wednesday against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

On May 23, the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council released their initial draft plan for restoring the gulf following extensive damage caused by the 2010 Macondo blowout and BP oil spill .

The Women's Civic Forum is hosting a session on the RESTORE Act and its potential impact on the area Thursday.

A federal indictment was dropped against a Bahama Village man accused of filing a fraudulent Deepwater Horizon oil spill claim, after he was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial.

For all practical purposes there are no crabs in Fort Bayou. I know because I had been catching them for 25 years and now they are gone.

The federal government will raise the bar for oil companies operating off the East Coast and in the Arctic, increasing the limit on their liability for environmental and other damage from a blowout or oil spill to $1-billion.

Tar balls lie mixed with shells on the beach last week in Gulf Shores, Ala. Some locals and environmentalists say that the effects of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill are still very noticeable in some areas.

Oil and gas companies are moving their control of some offshore platforms to offices on land to cut costs and improve efficiency, but labour unions say such moves reduce safety.

Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year, while disagreements continue over just how tightly the dollars should be restricted.

The BP oil spill took a toll on several business along the gulf shores, effecting the livelihood of millions and Dothan might add to that number.

A suspicious fire at an abandonded Langley City house - the third time it has gone up in three weeks - also resulted in an oil slick in the Nicomekl River.

Environmental advocates and others are questioning the decision to quit using crews to look for tar balls left by the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast beaches in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.

This video from the USA is called Gulf Oil Spill: BP Execs Escape Punishment as Disaster Continues To Impact Sea life.

Photographer Spencer Tunick fills landscapes and public places with the naked body.

The gulf oil spill is a tragedy seared into my mind, even more than three years later.

Clean-up operations after the April, 2011, Rainbow Pipeline rupture and oil spill near Peace River, Alta.

Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn't difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn't common enough to keep sending out the crews that patrolled the sand for three years in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.