The aftereffects of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 15 years ago are still being felt today.

Skimming vessels are working to contain and recover oil from a spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast that the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday estimated to be at least 1.1 million gallons.

The extent of environmental impacts from a large oil spill this month in the Gulf of Mexico are still unknown, though early observations from a unified command team of federal and state agencies ...

For shame. Crude Awakening A major oil spill off the coast of Louisiana has poured more than a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, alarming local authorities and wildlife conservationists.

An oil spill believed to be roughly one-tenth the size of the Exxon Valdez is affecting wildlife and oil production offshore Louisiana, officials said this week. The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday a ...

Around 61,165 barrels of daily oil output from at least six producers, making up about 3% of crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, has been shut in by Third Coast Infrastructure's underwater ...

Oil Spill Dumps as Much as 1.1 Million Gallons Into Gulf of Mexico, Raising Concerns About Wildlife The U.S. Coast Guard is still searching for the specific source of the leak, which occurred last ...

Officials have yet to find the source of the oil spill, which has left chunky globules and long slicks near a 67-mile-long pipeline system off the coast of Louisiana.

In addition to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf region has a history of major oil spills, including a 5 million-gallon spill in 1990 near Galveston, Texas.

Efforts continued this week to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began last week and has now grown to more than a million gallons. The Coast Guard says crude oil was released near a ...

Per the NOAA, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill contaminated sea turtle habitats and adversely affected marine mammals, birds, fish and invertebrates throughout the Gulf of Mexico.