Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.

A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed stop the ...

BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Most notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions ...

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

BP PLC told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July. The company says the money was intended to keep Gulf Coast residents informed on ...

Dozens of endangered sea turtles, plucked from the oil-fouled waters of the Deepwater Horizon disaster this summer, got a second chance Tuesday in Southwest Florida.

The administrator of the new claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill says most of the individual claims reviewed in the first week lacked the minimal documentation to be paid.

An agreement struck between Florida Realtors, the state Realtor association, and Kenneth Feinberg, the claims administrator for the BP Oil Spill Fund, makes $16 million available to real estate professionals in Florida who lost business because of BP’s blown-out well, ...