Vigils were scheduled Wednesday in Gulf Coast states to mark the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history. On the night of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon burst into flames after ...

Loading Documents on the Oil Spill The blind shear ram, nestled 5,000 feet underwater in a ... If this valve jammed or leaked, the report warned, the ram’s blades would not budge.

There aren't many issues on which government regulators, oil industry experts and environmentalists can all agree, but five years after the BP gulf oil spill, many say offshore drilling operations ...

As for how much oil has been leaked since the beginning of the spill, it’s hard to say. An estimate from SkyTruth, a satellite watchdog organization , put the total at 855,000 to 4 million ...

Two years ago, a spill from an oil pipeline in Michigan fouled waterways and transformed the quiet town of Marshall into a restricted area with a military ...

The 2010 oil spill, considered one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, was triggered by an explosion on the BP-contracted Transocean Ltd. Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 ...

The worst oil spill in U.S. history was much worse than first thought, as the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010 unleashed "toxic and invisible" oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to ...

July 1970: Oil gushed for one hour from vents on an overflowing barge at Shell’s marine terminal at Wagner’s Point. The slick from the 67,000 gallon spill spread 15 miles. Sept. 1970: More ...

An area estimated to be as large as 1,000 football fields has been covered in oil so far. While clean-up methods are underway, big spills are difficult to contain.