When BP CEO Tony Hayward lamented that he wanted his "life back," Keith Jones took notice. A petition started by Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.), callin...

NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says he will introduce a bill to repeal a law that could allow the owner of the oil drilling rig that sank ...

This story has been updated Some of the most-anticipated witnesses at key oil spill hearings -- including BP's top official on the Deepwater Horizon ...

NEW ORLEANS — As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig burned around him, Chris Pleasant hesitated, waiting for approval from his superiors before ...

As BP Deepwater Horizon shows, in images as grotesque as Cousteau's were gorgeous, we cannot let the ocean's mystery lull us into inaction.

Fact of the Day: J.P. Morgan invented credit-default swaps to extend Exxon a $5 billion line of credit in case it had to pay out the court judgment ag...

The assertion that coal can currently be mined and burned cleanly is as delusional as the claim that new technologies render off-shore drilling perfectly safe.

COVINGTON, La. (AP) -- Senior managers complained oil giant BP was "taking shortcuts" by replacing heavy drilling fluid with saltwater in the well tha...

How do we change the organizational culture inside of BP to place a higher priority on worker safety and environmental protection? One motivator is catastrophe.

The chances that the United States will fully recover these costs from BP are remote. This is only the beginning, only a fractional representation of resources devoted so far.

The National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon Response team has today established a multi-agency federal effort to determine oil flow rates from the BP spill.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- An administration official says the White House will establish a presidential commission to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf o...

Chrys Oynes, the associate director of Offshore Energy and Minerals Management at the Minerals Management Service will retire May 31, reports The Wash...

Undersea robots tried to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Friday in BP's latest attempt to cut ...

As lawsuits continue to mount against BP and Transocean, both companies are engaging in full scale efforts to limit their liability for the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), though down one man, finally released their stab at cl...

Take some golf balls, and some shredded rubber tires and just shove 'em down into the hole. Maybe that'll make it stop. That's what the boys from BP are thinking. Seriously.