WASHINGTON — Working to dismantle his predecessor’s environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding drilling in the Arctic and opening other ...

The Deepwater Horizon began its ill-fated effort in February ... The little research ship was bobbing in an oily sheen a few miles from the busted well. "But now you've got all this material ...

Deepwater Horizon — an ultra-deepwater drilling platform that BP leased from the drilling company Transocean — was completing a new well in the 1,600-m-deep Mississippi Canyon area when a ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

Offshore drilling in the U.S. got a bad reputation after the 2010 explosion of BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Investment in offshore ...

In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with its size or sheer depth of its drilling. However, the project for the ...