Government's Thad Allen says BP 'very close' to stopping oil once and for all. July 12, 2010— -- BP has successfully lowered a new containment cap onto its leaking well, its latest attempt to ...

From the very beginning of the BP oil spill—when reporters were told that there probably was no oil spill at all—the people in charge have consistently underestimated the size of the spill. After that ...

Thicker oil than ever hitting shore, as workers try new cleanup techniques. June 9, 2010— -- With more oil from the BP spill now coming ashore than ever, the environmental crisis along the Gulf ...

Oil-soaked pelicans struggling to fly came to symbolize the catastrophic impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the inhabitants of the Gulf of Mexico. Fifteen years later, brown ...

VENICE, La. (AP) - BP PLC said Monday that it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing crude for at least another week. The company ...

Though you wouldn’t know it from the words chosen by angry American politicians—who can’t stop talking about the company’s Englishness—BP’s name doesn’t actually stand for British Petroleum anymore.