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 ...

Using microphones submerged 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico ... which was used to determine BP's liability. In the 10 years following the spill, the oil company spent about ...

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas. At present, ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico are being exposed to an oil spill larger in magnitude and scope ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address as US president this week included a eulogy to fossil fuels and the “liquid gold under our feet”. Despite BP’s large oil and gas operations and reserves in Texas and ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s calls to "drill, baby, drill,” many oil companies operating in the Gulf will likely sit on ...

President-elect Donald Trump took aim at Mexico again Tuesday boasting that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico in retaliation ...

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory,” Trump said of the ocean basin that borders five U.S.

The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth-largest body of water ... Stephen Colbert suggested the name change after the 2010 BP oil spill. This happened on the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report." ...

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 ...

A lot of us longtime Floridians commemorate big events with special T-shirts. Looking back through the collection in our closet is like having a photo album made of 100% cotton. Tom Petty Concert 1995 ...