Articles
BP Warns of Rising Costs From Spill Settlement
(NEW ORLEANS) — BP is warning investors that the price tag will be "significantly higher" than it initially estimated for its multibillion-dollar settlement with...
BP Exec Back on the Stand in Oil Spill Trial
An internal BP probe of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico didn't explore whether upper-level management had a role in causing the disaster because...
High-Stakes Trial Begins for 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
(NEW ORLEANS) — A high-stakes trial started Monday to assign blame and help figure out exactly how much more BP and other companies should pay for the nation's...
BP Executive Testifies at Gulf Oil Spill Trial
A high-ranking BP executive testified Tuesday that the London-based oil giant and its contractors share the responsibility for preventing blowouts like the one...
Trial Set to Open for Gulf Oil Spill Litigation
Nearly three years after a deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to...
Photo Essays
Oil Spill Reaches New Zealand Beaches
A Liberian cargo ship's oil leak begins to take its toll on New Zealand's wildlife
A Brief History of the Exxon Valdez Disaster
Twenty years after the "Exxon Valdez" oil spill — the catastrophe on March 24, 1989, that released 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound...
Time.com Specials
The Dirty Dozen: Whom to Blame for the Oil Spill
There's no shortage of folks to point a finger at
Top 10 Environmental Disasters
As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows little sign of abating, TIME takes a look back at history's greatest environmental tragedies
Articles from Around the Web
Texas to take BP and Halliburton to court
Texas, alleges the companies and others'' engaged in wilful and wanton misconduct'' in the 2010 Deep Horizon oil spill. ...
Swiss rig owner admits role in Gulf oil spill
Transocean agrees to pay $1.4bn after its drilling rig exploded and caused a massive oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico. ...
Shell to pay damages over Nigeria oil spill
A Dutch court upholds one out of five allegations by Niger Delta farmers against oil company. ...
US court begins BP trial over Gulf oil spill
Billions of dollars at stake as civil trial opens over 2010 spill that dumped millions of barrels into Gulf of Mexico. ...
