PENSACOLA, Fla. -- It was the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010 released 3.19 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. The clean-up is still ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Why, you might ask, was BP able to pump the Gulf full of chemicals that have never ...

A federal judge in New Orleans will accept materials through a deadline next week on whether Nalco, the maker of chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill, can remain in litigation. Hundreds of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The GAP report was issued today in advance of tomorrow’s three-year anniversary of BP ...

For microscopic animals living in the Gulf of Mexico, even worse than the toxic oil released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster may be the very oil dispersants used to clean it up, a new study ...