An 1898 Supreme Court decision cemented the concept of birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizen ...

April 20 marks the 15th anniversary marks the 15th anniversary of the worst spill of its kind on record. Louisiana marshes were heavily impacted.

A chronology of some of the major oil industry accidents in the last 20 years: March 1980: Alexander Keilland oil rig in Ekofisk field of North Sea broke up with fatigue fracture and capsized ...

If you've ever seen an offshore drilling rig, you know they're absolutely massive. But are these huge rigs, which are ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else ...

Families of those killed in an oil rig disaster 45 years ago have welcomed a new report that supports their claims of being denied justice. The Alexander Kielland platform was being used as an ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.

The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating to their lowest since January, energy ...

Health and livelihood issues from the disaster linger not only among workers who survived the explosion on the remote offshore oil rig, but also among coastal residents and emergency responders.

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.