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The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...
The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names
Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.
Gulf of Mexico to be renamed under Trump. What that means and what it will be called
President Donald Trump has been promising a flurry of executive action on Day 1, and even as he was being sworn in, there ...
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Scientists put microphones at the bottom of the Gulf to hear whales. It was eerily quiet.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was the largest ever, spewing some 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf and creating an oil slick over 43,300 square miles, roughly the size of the ...