A timeline of the events of what happened in the evolving story of the disastrous oil spill from a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the US Coast. In one of the worst disasters in US off-shore ...

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The Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 workers, seriously injured 17 and unleashed the largest oil spill in U.S. history, with an estimated 130 million gallons flowing into the Gulf over 87 days.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fireboats pour water on the flames of the Deepwater Horizon drilling structure on April 21, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) — This week marked 16 years since the BP oil spill tragedy, which killed 11 people, spewed 130 million gallons of oil into the Gulf and crippled the ecosystem. Gulf Coast marks 16 ...

New Orleans -- The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money. So many people cashed in that ...

If the early portion of BP's report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill wasn't written by a lawyer, it was written by someone who was channeling one. BP p.l.c. posted the results of its investigation ...

Alabama and Louisiana may sue the oil company under general maritime law for punitive damage, negligence and product liability, but not for civil penalties under the Outer Continental Shelf Act as ...

President Barack Obama started his day with a special 20-minute briefing on the disaster and pledged "all available resources" including the military, to try and stave off a possible environmental ...