Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico

A House Divided: Creatively Funding Oil Spill Coverage

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.17.2011

Karen Dalton-Beninato

Following the news about the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster can be like reading "A Tale of Two Places." The ocean, the...

The BP Oil Spill's Longterm Impact Is Showing

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Groner

The effects of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are still coming to surface. A new report this weekend shows that tourism in Louisiana rema...

Marcus Baram

Gulf Oil Spill: Government Regulator Downplayed Environmental Impact Of Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

This story has been updated In the wake of the growing environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is being blamed for discounting the potent...

BP Oil Spill 2010: Latest News, PHOTOS

Posted 05.25.2011

The BP oil spill has had devastating effects to the environment as well as humans and wildlife in the Gulf region. Today it was revealed that the oil...

Oil Spill PICTURES: Effects Of Gulf Oil Spill In Photos

Posted 05.25.2011

The effects of the oil spill last week are becoming more and more apparent and oil spill pictures provide a dramatic look at the devastation. The oil...

Oil Spill And Shore Concerns: Spill Worse Than First Thought

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Th...

'Spill Of National Significance' Declared Over Gulf Oil Spill

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 05.25.2011

VENICE, La. — The government has sent skimmers, booms and other resources to clean up a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that's become fa...

Offshore Drilling -- Opening Pandora's Box

Karl Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Karl Grossman

What's happening now in the Gulf of Mexico will occur more often if the plan to open more offshore waters to oil and gas drilling moves ahead -- such drilling and spillage are intertwined.

Oil Spill Gulf Of Mexico 2010: Coast Guard Considers Lighting Oil On Fire

AP | CAIN BURDEAU AND BRETT MARTEL | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW ORLEANS — A new oil leak was discovered at the site in the Gulf of Mexico where a drilling rig exploded and sank, and experts now estimate t...

On BP's Planet Locals are "Prospering" from the Oil Disaster

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Grandia

Despite the billions that will be lost this summer in tourism and fishing dollars, British Petroleum cannot help but try and somehow paint a pretty pi...

BP Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Grandia

New data released shows that the oil slick is contaminating one protected ecoregion containing more than 60 percent of America's tidal marshes, and is threatening at least two more.

Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS: Gulf Of Mexico Disaster Unfolds

Posted 05.25.2011

On April 20, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and commencing months of oil leaking unrestrained into ...