The plan would open up a massive amount of waters to new oil and gas drilling and would be detrimental to marine life.

A sweeping proposal by the Trump administration to expand offshore oil and gas drilling could result in more than 4,000 oil ...

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 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

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 ...

The oil spill was devastating for sea turtles in the Gulf. Four kinds of sea turtles were directly exposed to oil in the ocean, along the coast, and on beaches: the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley ...

Women, juveniles, and ICE detainees in correctional facilities in five Gulf Coast states are vulnerable to threats from extreme heat, flooding, and hurricanes, a Yale School of the Environment study ...

Cartoonist Bill Keane had a recurring gag in his "Family Circus" comic strip in which a mother tried to discover the source of some household disaster. Who broke the vase? Who tracked mud into the ...