The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds. We thought we’d prevented another one.

NEW ORLEANS — Sunday marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, when a massive explosion on a BP-operated oil rig claimed 11 lives and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. Now, ...

The oil drilling platform blew up 15 years ago, triggering the worst single environmental disaster in the nation’s history. A crew member works to clean up oil that washed ashore at Pensacola Beach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the environmental impact is still felt along the Gulf Coast. Settlement money ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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The Deepwater Horizon disaster began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion killed 11 workers and left the Macondo well leaking deep under the Gulf of Mexico. BP tried to stop it with deep-sea robots, a ...

If you live around the Gulf of Mexico, you already know the significance of April 20. It’s a date with lasting footprints on the beaches along our coast, from Florida to Texas. Fifteen years ago this ...