Not so fast, BP. The oil company is running TV ads trumpeting that the Gulf Coast is well on its way to recovery from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Whitewashing the situation may actually slow the progress towards recovery.
For decades, farmers and fishermen along the Gulf of Mexico watched as their sensitive ecosystem's waters slowly got dirtier and islands eroded, all while the country largely ignored the destruction.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An environmental watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana, claiming oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than seven years with few details about what's being done to stop it.
An environmental watchdog group is suing the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana that allegedly has been flowing more than seven years.Waterkeeper Alliance claims in ...
An environmental watchdog group is suing the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles (18 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana that allegedly has been flowing more than seven years.
The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast should go awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials Monday.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Legal experts say there is still a chance a settlement can be reached before the epic trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill begins in New Orleans.
Legal experts say there is still a chance that a settlement can be reached before the epic trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill begins in New Orleans.