Government's Thad Allen says BP 'very close' to stopping oil once and for all. July 12, 2010— -- BP has successfully lowered a new containment cap onto its leaking well, its latest attempt to ...

Oil may hit shores for months -- 464 turtles dead since spill's start. July 13, 2010— -- As BP begins to test the new cap that the company hopes will finally contain its gushing leak in the Gulf ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday - 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded - then began a tense 48 hours of watching ...

July 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1799, a French soldier discovered the Rosetta Stone, an ancient stele that served as the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. Now housed in the ...

It's hard to find an upside to the disastrous oil spill still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. But Democrats may be looking to push cap and trade legislation, which had previously stalled, off of ...

Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show off what matters there: the redfish are ...

BP is implementing a plan to place a new cap on the broken well that has been spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico for almost three months. The old cap merely slowed the flow of oil, but BP hopes that ...

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is proposing to nearly double the country's oil pollution liability cap from $75 million to about $134 million in keeping with recommendations made by panels ...