The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

That bill, which was referred to a committee, did not pass. Two years earlier, comedian Stephen Colbert had joked on his show that, following the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of ...

(Courtesy: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition) Oil spills can pollute large volumes of surrounding water – thousands of times greater than the spill itself – causing ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been called the Gulf of Mexico ... The Gulf of America, then, will henceforth be the official site of any future oil spills within its 600,000-plus square miles, and the ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been so called for over ... Colbert suggested the change following the Deepwater Horizon spill that dumped 168 million gallons of oil across nearly 60,000 square miles ...