The Deepwater Horizon well has most likely spewed 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day, more than previously estimated, according to a group of scien...
AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and JOHN FLESHER | Posted 05.25.2011
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pe...
AP | MATTHEW BROWN and JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — A thick, 22-mile plume of oil discovered by researchers off the BP spill site was nearing an underwater canyon, where it could poi...
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011
ROBERT, La. — Anger grew along the Gulf Coast as an ooze of oil washed into delicate coastal wetlands in Louisiana, with many wondering how to c...
Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press))- A federal official said Sunday that scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane seen near BP's busted ...
By TOM BREEN and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and started trying to slowly choke off the flow of oil into t...
Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- In a potentially pivotal moment in the Gulf crisis, BP planned to begin closing valves Tuesday in a slow and methodical process th...
AP | HARRY R. WEBER and JOHN CURRAN | Posted 05.25.2011
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- A remote-controlled submarine shot a chemical dispersant into the maw of a massive undersea oil leak Monday, further evidence...
AP | ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON — The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will be stopped, BP's chief executive said in an interview broadcast Thursday, although he was unabl...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU and HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — The oil you can't see could be as bad as the oil you can. While people anxiously wait for the slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash...
Mark Gold | Posted 05.25.2011
Lisa Jackson is a Princeton graduate in chemical engineering, a specialist in toxics, and a Louisiana native! What more can you ask for? Give her some real authority, and let her lead.
The 14th Banker | Posted 05.25.2011
Changing an attitude may not be possible if you don't change some people. To do that, Boards must be put on notice that if they do not clean up the industry over the resistance of their CEOs, they will also be accountable.
Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man heading the Obama administration's response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico said Tuesday that a new-installed contai...
Jon Gutierrez | Posted 05.25.2011
In this video from Upright Citizens Brigade's group The Brig, BP would like you to know that there's a bright side to the Gulf oil spill -- a massive redistribution of wealth for under the sea.
Posted 05.25.2011
As of Sunday evening, BP was reporting more success with the latest method of containing the well that has now been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexic...
Newsweek | Sharon Begley | Posted 05.25.2011
Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths with devastating consequences. 'I'm not too worried about oil on the surfac...
McClatchy | Marisa Taylor and Erika Bolstad | Posted 05.25.2011
Federal regulators complained in a scathing internal memo about "significant deficiencies" in BP's handling of the safety of oil spill workers and ask...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011
While the Gulf oil spill has devastated the region, and will have long-term consequences, BP will be able to shake off the costs of the cleanup with l...
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN and MIKE BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011
COVINGTON, La. (AP) -- BP's latest experimental bid to plug its seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico hung in the balance early Wednesday as its to...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Oil spill frustration is rampant. The White House is being pounded for not acting more aggressively in the month-old oil spill dis...
washingtonpost.com | Joel Achenbach, Juliet Eilperin and David Fahrenthold | Posted 05.25.2011