The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

The rapidly expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears certain to be a huge environmental and economic disaster. News reports have detailed the peril for the fragile Louisiana wetlands, beaches ...

On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history. A maintenance error triggered a gas leak that quickly ignited into ...

Officials who examined federal oversight of the offshore oil and gas industry after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster said regulatory changes by the Obama administration were necessary and shouldn’t be ...

Over the past several years, public support for offshore drilling has faltered. While 59.2% of Americans supported drilling for oil off the U.S. coast in 2022, by 2024 that share had fallen to 52.4%.

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Hundreds of people gathered Sunday morning at the Wharfinger building in Eureka to hear from local and state leaders about how to fight offshore oil drilling on the California coast. Banners loudly ...

BP has criticized the new "Deepwater Horizon" film as being an inaccurate Hollywood dramatization of the deadly oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. "The Deepwater Horizon movie is ...

It’s back—the federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling. As the headline last month in the Long Island newspaper Newsday reported: “Plan for New Oil Drilling Off Fla. and Calif. Coasts ...