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By The Associated Press The Gulf of Mexico was not a pristine place even before the BP oil spill. Scientists asked to grade its health pre-spill gave it a "C'' and graded its fish and wetlands a "D." More>>
With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already. More>>
No more oil is likely to leak into the Gulf of Mexico now that efforts to plug the blown-out well are succeeding, the government's point man on the spill declared Wednesday. A relieved President Barack Obama said the... More>>
BP gas station owners across the country are divided over whether the oil giant stained by its handling of the Gulf spill should rebrand U.S. outlets as Amoco or another name as part of efforts to repair the company's... More>>
Crews took another step toward readying the relief well expected to finally kill the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, removing the plug they had popped in before clearing the area ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie last week, federal... More>>
Battered BP began reinventing itself in the shadow of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Tuesday, naming its first American CEO as it reported a record $17 billion quarterly loss. Its outgoing chief miffed the White House anew... More>>
Tony Hayward is poised to move to a new job as a non-executive board member with few direct responsibilities at BP PLC's Russia venture, TNK-BP. He would not even need to spend much time in Russia, though his contacts in... More>>
BP PLC and the other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are faced with fast-multiplying lawsuits that will provoke one of the most drawn-out and costliest legal battles in U.S. history, one that could easily... More>>
Incoming BP CEO: Massive Gulf oil spill has been wake-up call for entire oil and gas industry. More>>
Key ships stationed over BP's crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico were ordered to evacuate Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie, and engineers have grown so confident in the leaky cap fixed to the well head that they... More>>
The administrator of a $20 billion oil spill compensation fund said Wednesday he's been besieged by real estate agents and brokers, demanding that they become eligible for payments. More>>
The House passed legislation Wednesday that promotes new ways to clean up oil spills and aims to make deepwater drilling safer. More>>
Scientists studying the massive BP oil spill are turning to a vast collection of preserved animals at the Smithsonian to see what kind of changes the oil spill may wreak among life forms in the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
The 5,600 vessels taking part in the oil spill operation on the Gulf of Mexico make up the largest fleet assembled since the Allied invasion of Normandy, according to the Coast Guard. More>>
BP and the federal government are offering a ray of hope in a summer of setbacks for crews trying to stop the gulf oil spill: The first of two relief wells could be done by the end of this month, weeks ahead of schedule. More>>
Biologist Lorna Patrick dug gingerly into the beach Friday, gently brushing away sand to reveal dozens of leathery, golfball-sized loggerhead sea turtle eggs. More>>
Some independent owners of BP gas stations in Michigan say they have switched or are trying to switch brands amid customer boycotts sparked by the continuing Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More>>
The NAACP has sent a letter to BP expressing concerns that minorities helping to clean up after the massive oil spill tend to be assigned tougher, lower paying jobs than whites. More>>
Coastal officials in Texas now say that new laboratory tests show most of the tar balls that have washed up on Texas shores in the past few days are not from the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More>>
Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they... More>>
Fireworks displays have been canceled. White-sand beaches that should be crowded with sunbathers are instead dotted with cleanup workers, booms and sand-sifting equipment. Normally packed hotels are trying to fill rooms... More>>
BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest... More>>
The fireworks display in the cityof Durango will go on thanks to embattled oil giant BP. More>>
BP's mounting costs for capping and cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico spill have reached $2.65 billion, it said Monday, but the oil giant denied reports out of Russia that CEO Tony Hayward is resigning. More>>
Hurricane watches were in effect Monday for a stretch of Gulf coast in southern Texas and northern Mexico as Tropical Storm Alex gained strength and appeared on track tobecome a Category 3 hurricane before it makes landfall... More>>
BP says the rig drilling the relief well that's the best hope of stopping the Gulf oil spill has made it within about 20 feet horizontally of the blown-out well that's gushing crude. More>>
The BP oil spill has hammered the fishing and tourism industries along the Gulf of Mexico. But it appears the economicdamage to the rest of the nation will be limited. More>>
The Louisiana federal judge who struck down a six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling has sold many of his energy investments, a financial disclosure report released Friday reveals. More>>
The Justice Department on Friday urged a federal appeals court to delay a judge's ruling overturning a drilling moratorium in the Gulf. More>>
The first tropical depression of the Atlantic 2010 hurricane season has formed in the Western Caribbean, but it is unclear if it will pass over the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on Friday lambasted BP PLC and coal mining company Massey Energy for their recent disasters, saying they need to enact better safety measures and not make a profit "at the expense of killing"... More>>
Embattled Englishman and CEO Tony Hayward on Wednesday handed over BP's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to an American executive brought up in one of the states affected by the disaster. More>>
After weeks of suffering the ire of the White House over the Louisiana rig spill, the oil industry is fighting back. More>>
It looks dirty and muddy, a brown mass of weeds with gas-filled berries that allow it to float on the Gulf of Mexico's waters. Sometimes it washes ashore, getting caught in the toes of barefoot beachgoers or stuck to the... More>>
Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire. Mullets, crabs,rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in... More>>
The White House is asking Congress for $15 million to pay for the presidential commission that will investigate the BP oil spill. More>>
He was given the delicate task of putting a dollar figure on the life of each Sept. 11 victim and trimming paychecks at companies that got taxpayer bailouts. More>>
Americans have become just as dissatisfied with President Barack Obama's work on the Gulf oil spill as they were with his predecessor's handling of Hurricane Katrina, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll... More>>
In assuring Americans that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. More>>
As countless tar balls washed ashore on a beach along Alabama's Gulf Coast, cleanup workers sat and watched because they didn't have the proper plastic covers to protect their shoes. Elsewhere, a crew using shovels... More>>
The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana's coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental disaster spewing from BP's offshore well. And fishermen are... More>>
U.S. shrimpers who comb seas unaffected by the oil-slickened Gulf are raising prices as demand for their catch rises, bringing a potential - but bittersweet - respite from some tough years. More>>
By The Associated Press President Barack Obama plans a nationally televised address Tuesday night from the Oval Office on his administration's efforts to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
Shares in BP plunged again in early trading in London - extending a sell-off in New York - as U.S. political pressure intensified onthe British oil company to halt dividend payments and fork out greater compensation for the... More>>
The financial toll of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico escalated Wednesday as BP's stock plummeted to a 14-year low and fishermen, businesses and property owners who have filed damage claims with the company... More>>
The latest announcement on how much oil is being captured from the gushing BP oil well raised additional doubts Wednesday about the validity of government estimates on how much crudeactually has been spewing into Gulf waters. More>>
Shares in BP PLC plummeted on Tuesday, wiping billions off the British company's market value, after the failure of its latest attempt to stop the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. More>>
Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit the Gulf Coast to see areas affected by the oil spill and meet with state attorneys general and U.S. prosecutors. More>>
BP chief executive Tony Hayward is apologizing for saying "I'd like my life back" to reporters over the weekend. More>>
The BP oil slick drifted perilously close to the Florida Panhandle's famous sugar-white beaches Wednesday as a risky gambit to contain the leak by shearing off thewell pipe ran into trouble a mile under the sea when the... More>>
BP is probably sturdy enough to survive the worst oil spill in U.S. history. But investors are shaving billions of dollars off its value with every day that crude gushes into the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
President Barack Obama gave the leaders of an independent commission investigating the Gulf oil spill marching orders Tuesday to thoroughly examine the disaster and its causes to ensure that the nation never faces such a... More>>
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press Writer Ben Brooks, a lawyer and Republican state senator from coastal Alabama, says he's no fan of big government but he expects an aggressive federal response as a... More>>
"Top kill" didn't stop the Gulf oil spill. How about something "titanic"? More>>
The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words "Martin... More>>
It's all so last millennium, that filthy business in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. More>>
Robot submarines carried equipment and cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday to prepare to place a new containment valve over the blown-out well this week, while BP crews began working on yet another... More>>
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says he will introduce a bill to repeal a law that could allow the owner of the oil drilling rig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico to limit its liability for the disaster to $27 million. More>>
Tourists along the Gulf coast are enjoying the beaches despite the nation's worst oil spill. More>>
Responding to suggestions that the military should take the lead in responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the oil industry is better-equipped to deal with the... More>>
Day by day, the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is adding up to mind-boggling numbers. More>>
The calamitous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico isn't just a mess for the people who live or work on the coast. If you drink coffee, eat shrimp, like bananas or plan to buy a new set of tires, you could end up paying more... More>>
By SAMANTHA YOUNG Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will find another way to help close the state's $20 billion budget deficit after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of... More>>
The oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has drained $32 billion from BP's stock market value. Lawsuits, fines, cleanup and reputation-repair are certain to cost the company billions more and could tie up BP for... More>>
A federal law may limit how much BP has to pay for damages such as lost wages and economic suffering in the Gulf Coast oil spill, despite President Barack Obama's assurances that taxpayers will not be on the hook. More>>
The company BP PLC hired to build concrete and steel containment boxes says the first one will be completed within 48 hours. More>>
The latest satellite image of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico indicates it has shrunk since last week. But scientists say that only means some of the oil has gone underwater. More>>
Grain and bean prices are falling as investors worry that an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might hinder shipments of the crops. More>>
Procter&Gamble Co. says it has rushed 1,000 bottles of Dawn dishwashing liquid to the Gulf of Mexico region to help clean wildlife soiled by the massive oil spill. More>>
In the conservative Florida Panhandle, where Sarah Palin's battle cry "Drill, Baby, Drill" is still visible on car bumpers, some are reconsidering their support of offshore drilling as a growing spill in the Gulf of... More>>
