10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed. Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are ...

John Maas poses for a portrait Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Sparta, Tenn. Thousands of people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick, including Maas.

Thousands of ordinary people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick. When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the ...

By Liz Kimbrough 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 ...

Eleven lives lost, a coast in crisis and businesses threatened.The BP oil spill happened 15 years ago.It is still considered one of the worst environmental disasters this country has ever seen.The ...

GETTING SICK. After the explosion on April 20, 2010, the spill was spectacular. A camera live-streamed the rupture on cable news, showing the world in real time gushing oil that wouldn’t stop.

Thousands of ordinary people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick. A court settlement was supposed to help compensate them, but it hasn’t ...

BP declined to comment for this story, citing ongoing litigation 14 years after the spill. GETTING SICK. After the explosion on April 20, 2010, the spill was spectacular.

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