Lingering damage and policy changes under President Donald Trump are renewing concerns about offshore drilling risks in the ...
Opponents of the project, known as Kaskida, say an accident could be even worse than the Deepwater Horizon spill. The company ...
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...
In April 2010, a state-of-the-art offshore oil rig operated by BP exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 and ignited a fireball so large it could be seen from 40 miles away. For nearly ...
The 16th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, will be ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday made public its rollback of a major offshore-drilling safety regulation, significantly weakening an Obama-era rule that was put in place after the ...
There is a lot of buzz over Senator Frank Lautenberg’s suggestion that oil companies be required to drill a relief well at the same time as they drill any deepwater production well. That would allow ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster ...
Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry’s new technology could bring risks to Florida’s coast. Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary ...