In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for efforts to stop the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge in Washington on Tuesday dismissed a 2016 lawsuit in which ...

NEW ORLEANS — Taylor Energy is defending its efforts over nearly 15 years to stop an interminable oil leak off the tip of Louisiana. Its CEO challenged new estimates of the size of the spill and ...

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by New Orleans oil company Taylor Energy against the government contractor hired to clean up Taylor’s nearly two decadeslong oil leak in the Gulf ...

After the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded in 2010, environmentalists surveying the damage in the Gulf of Mexico came upon a mystery. The water had oil slicks that, because of the ...

A Louisiana company responsible for the longest-running offshore oil spill in U.S. history will turn over more than $400 million to the federal government to manage cleanup, while paying $43 million ...

The Coast Guard is coming down hard on the owners of a broken oil platform that has been allowed to leak off southeast Louisiana for more than 14 years. New federal estimates put the leak rate at the ...