Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The catastrophic Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, which occurred in 2010, may have been significantly worse than ...

Tourism collapsed in Southwest Florida in 2010 and more than 500 claims for economic-related damages were paid in Charlotte, ...

Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil fines related to its role in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout at the Macondo well site. In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore ...

An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010. New research chronicles the fate of the oil that wasn’t cleaned up. The Deepwater ...

FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...

A new analysis of the aftermath of the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident suggests that, while the reputation of BP—the oil and gas company responsible for the event—declined through 2017, its ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill.

Before the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the Minerals Management Service was tasked with regulating offshore energy industry — until the agency was dissolved due to widespread corruption.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns on April 21 ...

On April 20, 2010, while drilling oil giant BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the crew lost control of the well. There was a "blowout" that released gas and oil, leading to an explosion that ...