PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico. Past ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Mongabay Latam and Data Crítica examined and compared official data of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, including satellite images by scientists studying oil spills and evidence compiled by fishing ...

White House puts pressure on BP, as BP denies responsibility for spill accident. May 3, 2010 — -- With the White House putting pressure on BP today, company executives promised to clean up the ...

Mexico’s state-run oil company, Pemex, reports that recent torrential rains have caused a pipeline spill along the Pantepec ...

The Coast Guard is responding to the report of a crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard and the responsible party are continuing to evaluate trajectory models to identify the potential ...

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at ...

On Day 93 of the crisis some ask, 'Where did Tony Hayward go?' July 21, 2010— -- On Day 93 of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's cap is still holding back the leaking well and the company ...

For more than a week, the U.S. Coast Guard has been attempting to contain what it's calling "an uncontrolled oil and natural gas discharge" off the Gulf Coast. The Coast Guard on Friday said more than ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months ...