Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING ...

the effects of the nation's worst offshore oil spill are still being felt. Oil company BP paid billions of dollars in damages, propelling ambitious coastal restoration projects across five states.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf ... a cleanup crew tasked with containing the spill for BP. “But I couldn’t stop her — they ...

killing 11 workers and unleashing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. It took 87 days to cap the BP-operated Macondo well, during which time millions of barrels of crude oil poured into ...

The BP disaster is still the largest marine oil spill in history. In the months after, local lawmakers, like then-state Rep. Jimmy Patronis, were sounding the alarm on how bad it was.

“I worked in upstream oil and gas in drilling and completions, and I entered the industry just after the BP Deepwater Horizon (spill),” said Andrew Baxter, now a senior director at the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Sunday marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, when a massive explosion on a BP-operated oil rig claimed 11 lives and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history.