NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

Every American adult can summon up searing images from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

BATON ROUGE, La. - Donald Vidrine, one of two BP supervisors on the Deepwater Horizon when the drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, has died in Louisiana at age 69. Robert Habans, an ...

In 1926, my grandfather, a fisherman by trade, began ferrying locals and tourists out to the Gulf Islands National Seashore on a converted wood oyster schooner. Nearly 100 years later, using my family ...

Deepwater Horizon workers did a hip-hop safety dance aboard the oil rig. May 4, 2010 — -- The federal agency charged with enforcing safety on deepwater oil rigs has also played a major role in ...

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 ...