Gulf of Mexico

Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry

2013-05-02 13:30:00

The seafood is safe to eat and the Gulf of Mexico tourism industry is recovering three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the waters off Louisiana. But despite that BP-sponsored...

UC expert questions BP management's role in gulf oil spill

2013-02-26 10:49:00

An expert witness for those suing BP over the nation’s worst environmental disaster criticized the company’s investigation of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the civil trial entered its second day. UC Berkeley engineering professor...

Carnival Triumph cruise ship adrift; long lines for toilets, food

2013-02-12 10:28:00

Passengers stranded on a cruise ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico say they must stand in long lines to use working bathrooms and to get hot meals. The messages from passengers on the Carnival Triumph, drifting in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine...

BP says gulf states are seeking more than $34 billion in claims

2013-02-05 11:00:00

Oil giant BP�said it is confronting more than $34 billion in damage claims related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and the nation's biggest offshore oil spill. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida presented their claims...

BP pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2010 gulf oil spill

2013-01-29 14:16:00

A federal judge in New Orleans accepted an agreement for BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record fine in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which ranks as one of the nation’s worst environmental...

BP shut out of U.S. contracts: Feds cite deadly blast, poor response

2012-11-28 09:45:00

BP, which has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with the nation's worst offshore oil spill, was suspended from new government contracts on Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced. In suspending the company, the...

Philip Fradkin dies at 77; environmental writer chronicled the West

2012-07-11 00:00:00

Philip L. Fradkin, a native New Yorker whose fascination with the West turned him into an astute chronicler of the region's history and environmental legacy in books on such topics as the great San Francisco earthquake, nuclear test fallout in Nevada...

Inupiat whaling, drilling at stake in recent Alaskan mayor’s race

2011-12-06 16:33:30

In first gulf oil lease auction since spill, BP bids -- and bids

2011-12-14 16:36:47

Agency overseeing oil, gas exploration gets shakeup

2011-09-30 16:33:43

Burning oil from BP spill produced carbon plumes

2011-10-24 16:33:28

Gulf oil spill claim payouts reach $5.5 billion

2011-10-28 08:39:50

St. George is a long, skinny barrier island, drifting between Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Apalachicola. Skip the developed middle of the island and stick to the northeast end, where St. George Island State Park protects nine miles of broad beach.

2013-04-29 13:29:20

The tugs Resolve Pioneer and Dabhol tow and steer the 893-foot Carnival Triumph cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico.

2013-02-12 00:00:00

Offshore rigs such as these in the Gulf of Mexico pay federal royalties.

2012-12-06 14:43:07