Officials who examined federal oversight of the offshore oil and gas industry after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster said regulatory changes by the Obama administration were necessary and shouldn’t be ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

The rapidly expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears certain to be a huge environmental and economic disaster. News reports have detailed the peril for the fragile Louisiana wetlands, beaches ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental groups applauded President Joe Biden’s decision on Monday to enact a sweeping ban on new offshore oil and gas ...

Oil rig explosion that reshaped offshore safety On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history.

Public support for offshore drilling off the U.S. coast has fell from 59.2% of all Americans in 2022 to 52.4% in 2024. Opposition to offshore drilling is even prevalent in some of the most Republican ...

Hundreds of people gathered Sunday morning at the Wharfinger building in Eureka to hear from local and state leaders about how to fight offshore oil drilling on the California coast. Banners loudly ...

BP has criticized the new "Deepwater Horizon" film as being an inaccurate Hollywood dramatization of the deadly oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. "The Deepwater Horizon movie is ...