From the very beginning of the BP oil spill—when reporters were told that there probably was no oil spill at all—the people in charge have consistently underestimated the size of the spill. After that ...

We’ll be debating the long-term environmental impact of the BP oil spill for years, if not decades. But we can know one thing for sure right now: the spill is exacting psychological harm on the people ...

The effects of the chemicals used to contain the BP oil spill worry scientists. July 9, 2012— -- Two years ago this week, the wellhead that ruptured on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico, ...

The BP oil disaster holds a valuable lesson for investors. June 22, 2010 — -- Investors, take notice. The BP oil spill has taught us once again that no stock is immune from potential disaster. No ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company's efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil ...

Today a Louisiana judge accepted the guilty plea of oil giant British Petroleum in connection with the April 2010 explosion of its Deepwater Horizon platform that killed 11 workers, forcing BP to pay ...

GRAND ISLE, La. — BP said Thursday it plans to increase the amount of oil captured from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico by early next week as the Obama administration announced that the oil ...