Florida's senators and representatives are right to be indignant about drilling off Florida’s coast — but it shouldn’t stop ...

Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded, killing 11 people and igniting one of the worst ...

“As we have repeatedly seen in California and other parts of the country, offshore drilling is a ticking time bomb,” they continued. “Any expansion of offshore drilling in the waters off the coast of ...

Dear EarthTalk: Given the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last month, isn't it high time the government put a stop to offshore oil drilling once and for all? Short of banning it altogether, what ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday will consider a resolution opposing drilling off the coast of Southern ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57-foot charter boat, “Backdown 2.” The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...

The massive oil spill spreading through the Gulf of Mexico is a horrific environmental disaster that could have a devastating effect on bird populations, marine life, and the coastal ecology. But, ...