Oil Drilling in Gulf Safer, but Concerns Linger, Report Says April 5, 2023 By Seth Borenstein Thirteen years after the massive Deepwater Horizons spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico, regulators and industry have reduced some risks...
$215M in BP Oil Spill Money to Restore Louisiana Marshes October 1, 2020 BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana will get nearly $215 million in BP oil spill money for two projects planned to...
10 Years After BP Spill: Oil Drilled Deeper; Rules Relaxed April 20, 2020 By Kevin McGill and Matthew Brown NEW ORLEANS — Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the...
Coronavirus Is Delaying Vital Safety Work Across Oil and Gas March 27, 2020 By Rachel Graham and Anna Shiryaevskaya The , is delaying vital maintenance across the oil and natural gas industries in Europe and North America. Restrictions on...
Company Found Partly Responsible for Oklahoma Rig Explosion January 30, 2020 McALESTER, Okla. — An Oklahoma jury has found a Houston-based company 10% responsible for a January 2018 explosion and fire...
Disaster-Born Safety Rules Topple With Others in Trump Rollback November 22, 2019 By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration’s move to relax an Obama-era chemical safety regulation put in place after an explosion at a fertilizer...
Green Groups Sue Trump Administration for Gutting Offshore Oil Safety Rules June 11, 2019 By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON — A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Interior Department’s rollbacks of safety...
BP Spill Left Oil Slick on Seafloor the Size of Rhode Island October 29, 2014 By SETH BORENSTEIN The BP oil spill left an oily “bathub ring” on the sea floor that’s about the size of Rhode Island,...
BP Wants Judge to Amend ‘Gross Negligence’ Ruling October 6, 2014 By KEVIN McGILL BP has asked a federal judge to reconsider a ruling that could cost the oil giant around $18 billion in...
4 Years Later, BP Oil Spill Compensation Battle Continues April 22, 2014 By Jemima Kelly Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle,...