Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Light oil may have already entered Gulf's loop current, NOAA says. May 18, 2010— -- Oil from BP's spill in the Gulf of Mexico may already be spreading toward Florida, government officials said ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department and the five Gulf coast states affected by a massive oil spill nearly three years ago have indicated they would like to settle their environmental and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- State Attorney General Pam Bondi says a proposed settlement with BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may leave Floridians shortchanged. Bondi wrote a letter dated Tuesday to ...

Thicker oil than ever hitting shore, as workers try new cleanup techniques. June 9, 2010— -- With more oil from the BP spill now coming ashore than ever, the environmental crisis along the Gulf ...

Today a Louisiana judge accepted the guilty plea of oil giant British Petroleum in connection with the April 2010 explosion of its Deepwater Horizon platform that killed 11 workers, forcing BP to pay ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico. Past ...

On Monday, BP agreed to receive $4 billion from Anadarko Petroleum Co., its partner in the well that gushed oil into the Gulf of Mexico last year. As The New York Times reported: The settlement ends a ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after BP’s devastating Gulf oil spill, the only cleanup worker to successfully sue the oil giant over his chronic medical condition is filing a new lawsuit, this time ...

The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 people and ...

This article is brought to you by the Louisiana Commercial Fishing Coalition LLC. The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental ...