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.

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 ...

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As oil invades gulf waters, ABC's Diane Sawyer talks with one fishing community. May 24, 2010— -- While anger continues to grow over BP's failure to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that is starting to wash ashore is only getting sadder by the minute. Some of the most depressing images were broadcast tonight on MSNBC, as Rachel Maddow ...

A week from today will mark the one-year anniversary of the oil rig explosion of Deepwater Horizon that triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. For three months, rust-colored sludge gushed ...

The folks over at British Petroleum want the world to know they feel real bad about that explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010. Last week, the company even took out a ...

Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show off what matters there: the redfish are ...

Down along the Gulf coast, the beaches look cleaner, the birds less tar-covered, but the longterm consequences of the BP oil spill are leaving their mark under the ocean's surface. Scientists continue ...

An appeals court in the U.S. has ruled in BP’s favor in a dispute over the terms of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill settlement. The U.S. Court of Appeals ordered a review of the deal on Wednesday, based ...

(Reuters) - Here is a timeline on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and its impact since an explosion on a rig killed 11 workers unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. April 20, 2010 - Explosion ...