With the well capped and surface oil fast disappearing from the Gulf of Mexico, the response to the BP spill seems ready to move to a new phase—and possibly a less intense one. Right now BP is ...

White House facing questions about why it isn’t taking more control over situation. A contractor operates an oil skimmer near a marsh impacted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Pass a Loutre, La ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after BP’s devastating Gulf oil spill, the only cleanup worker to successfully sue the oil giant over his chronic medical condition is filing a new lawsuit, this time ...

Basic goods and services are being sold to BP at 20 times the regular price. April 17, 2011— -- The massive BP oil spill that devastated the Gulf Coast has turned out to be an economic boon for ...

Circa 2010, Vincent Culliver was planning a career change. His goal was to become an underwater welder on an oil rig, and he was looking for work when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened. So, ...

Alex threatens to stall cleanup -- Miss. Gov. says his state is at risk. June 28, 2010— -- Just weeks ago, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour claimed that oil was not a big threat to the people of ...

CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING OUT $65 ...

The BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is an incalculable tragedy and there is absolutely no silver lining about it. But if there were anything to at least laugh at, bitterly, in this mess, it’s BP CEO ...

The London-based oil giant said Monday that the Coast Guard is concluding "active cleanup operations" in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. If you purchase a product or register for an account through ...

Last summer, Erika Nyquist — a University of Montana student — got certified to handle hazardous materials and headed down to Louisiana to find a job on the BP oil spill cleanup. “They wouldn’t take ...