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Byline: Patrik Jonsson Few things would say 'the beaches are back' like President Obama tearing off his shirt and running into the surf at Panama City, Fla., during a brief [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino Darren Martin is a third-generation shrimp boat operator - and as far as he knows fishing may be in his blood even beyond that. His family has [...]

E.P.A. Releases Results on Dispersant-Oil Mix Spraying dispersants on oily water in the Gulf of Mexico to break up the spill does not make the water any more toxic than [...]

New Cap to Be Installed BP will begin replacing the cap on its runaway well with a tighter one meant to collect more oil. Adm. Thad W. Allen of the [...]

BP will begin replacing the cap on its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico with a new one that has a tighter seal and could funnel all the oil [...]

Byline: Rick Jervis NEW ORLEANS -- Oil from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico has reached into Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, as rough seas continued to slow [...]

Byline: Cheryl Sullivan For more than a week, high seas in the Gulf of Mexico have confounded some - but not all - of the massive efforts to clean up [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser Along state Highway 1 on Grand Isle, La., a flagpole in one yard is flying the Stars and Stripes at half staff and upside down. The Bridge [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino It is highly likely that oil moving through the Gulf of Mexico will soon end up affecting the Florida Keys and the Miami and Fort Lauderdale coastlines, [...]

Byline: Mimi Hall WASHINGTON -- James Lee Witt, the former FEMA director who built his reputation responding to disasters, is poised to become the latest big name on a team [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino BP has removed the containment cap that had been responsible for collecting as much as 16,000 barrels of oil a day from the leaking well in the [...]

BP on Wednesday began collecting crude oil from a second containment system that the company hopes will help stem the thousands of barrels escaping from their damaged well in the [...]

Byline: Peter N. Spotts There's a reason the deep ocean is dubbed 'inner space.' It's a place that poses some of the challenges that astronauts and robotics operators face in [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson The plume of oil continuing to flow Friday morning at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico signals that BP has not yet fully succeeded in sealing [...]

Byline: Kenneth Rogoff BP DISASTER As the damaged BP oil well continues to spew millions of gallons of crude from the depths of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, [...]

Americans went into the Memorial Day weekend hopeful that the oil gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico could be plugged, and emerged from the holiday facing the [...]

Old Shell Beach, La. I asked the sheriff of St. Bernard Parish, Jack Stephens, if he was at all optimistic about BP stopping the gusher of oil that is fouling [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino The US Environmental Protection Agency reversed course in the Gulf oil spill cleanup effort Thursday, telling BP that had three days to stop using a chemical dispersant [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser At a time when federal and state officials have spared few criticisms of BP and its efforts to clean its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, […]

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has reported that Owen McWhorter, a supervisor who was responsible for the blowout preventer owned by Transocean Ltd. some weeks prior to the BP PLC platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in a massive oilspill was allegedly working as a consultant for the government investigation into the accident.

The commission set up to investigate the causes of the BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reports that the disaster was indicative of problems with the culture in the offshore oil well drilling industry. The report is likely to have a far-reaching effect on the petroleum industry.

As the investigation into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the explosion of a BP PLC offshore oil well reveals that Halliburton Co. tested the cement used in the well's construction, found it faulty, but used it anyway.