A measure that would increase the amount of money Louisiana receives from offshore oil and gas production has survived the ...

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators ...

The BP oil spill affected fish in the Gulf of Mexico in different ways. Some showed clear signs of oil exposure, with many reef fish developing skin lesions in 2011.

John Maas poses for a portrait Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Sparta, Tenn. Thousands of people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick, including Maas.

Ten years later: An update on the status of collections of endemic Gulf of Mexico fishes put at risk by the 2010 Oil Spill. Biodiversity Data Journal, 2024; 12 DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e113399 ...

For shame. Crude Awakening A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana has poured more than a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, alarming local authorities and wildlife conservationists.

An estimated 1.1 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline that flows into Louisiana, prompting a multi-agency response.

But in some long-abandoned fiddler crab burrows along Louisiana’s Gulf coast, you’ll find something else: Residues of crude oil. The worst oil spill in human history unfolded over 87 days in 2010.

Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: What We Know The company leading the cleanup now says it isn’t responsible for the leak, highlighting the tangle of pipes, many of them abandoned, on the seafloor.