gulf oil spill

The settlement would end battles over economic and environmental damage done by the nearly 134-million-gallon spill from more than five years ago.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reopened state waters surrounding the islands, some of the areas most significantly oiled, near Grand Isle Dec. 10.

This arrangement will settle claims that were assigned to Halliburton after BP's settlemnt in the case.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier will have to decide which figures to use.

BP's attorneys are saying that because of the allegations, there is always a chance that they are other questions about wrong doing.

The Justice Department has reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Transocean Ltd., the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and spawned the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

If you were expecting good news regarding last year's BP oil spill recovery, sorry about this. It looks like the oil isn't going away as fast as initially expected. Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor... Rea