The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it says. The first, massive oil spill happened in 1979, when millions of barrels of oil spilled into the ocean ...

Colbert suggested the change following the Deepwater Horizon spill that dumped 168 million gallons of oil across nearly ...

(Courtesy: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition) Oil spills can pollute large volumes of surrounding water – thousands of times greater than the spill itself – causing ...