When ConocoPhillips won federal approval last year to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, environmental groups warned the ...

An ailing worker was pulled off a high-seas oil rig after suffering severe chest pains, with the entire daring rescue captured on dramatic Coast Guard video. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk chopper was ...

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 disaster began on the night of April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon rig burst into flames and killed the 11 men. The rest of the crew evacuated, but two days later the rig toppled into the ...

The Department of Environmental Conservation said it has been unable to get close to the wreckage due to worries that metal from Rig 26 might fall on response team members.