With the well capped and surface oil fast disappearing from the Gulf of Mexico, the response to the BP spill seems ready to move to a new phase—and possibly a less intense one. Right now BP is ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Efforts to close a well spewing oil in the Gulf of Mexico are failing so the Coast Guard is considering lighting the mess on fire. Crews have been unable to stop thousands of ...

Dublin residents are voicing outrage after a major oil spill devastated Kilbogget Park, a popular public green space just ...

—June 21, 2010 -- Science teachers nationwide are using the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a "teachable moment" as the school years ends, with most saying environmental issues will ...

The cleanup costs for the Exxon Valdez disaster reached US $2-billion (paid by various parties), and Exxon fought the federal government’s claim for an extra $92-million for restoration, until the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (507.2 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

With the coastal cleanup apparently downshifting and BP in the final stages of preparing for a static kill operation to help close the well, we may all soon need something new to obsess/post about.

First system of the season a concern to Coast Guard, Gulf residents. CHAUVIN, La., June 25, 2010 — -- A tropical depression now slowly moving in the western Caribbean has sparked widespread fears ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Researchers are heading out to study the effects of a Shell leak of about 88,200 gallons of oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, a scientist said on Monday. Last ...

Forty-six days later, the oil spill is still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on whose estimate you trust, somewhere between 22 million and 200 million gallons of oil are now in the water.

The University of North Florida confirmed Thursday that two of its officers have begun online training with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read full article: UNF confirms two of its police ...