In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf, causing 134 million gallons to gush into the water.

Smoke rises from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 21, 2010, a day after it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in the worst offshore spill in U.S. history.

FILE – A large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip on April 2010.

April 20 marked the 15th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, an oil spill that claimed the lives of 11 people and spewed 135 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. That's equivalent to 4 ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s been 15 years since the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, taking the lives of 11 ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst ...