One of the weirdest parts of the BP oil spill is the work that actor Kevin Costner is doing to help clean up the spill. Except that it's really not that weird at all.

BP has reached an $18.7 billion settlement ... Rough waters and high winds were complicating efforts to clean up a recent oil spill off the coast of California, state officials said Saturday.

The massive oil ... Spill Liability Trust Fund, which is funded by an eight cent per barrel tax on every barrel produced or imported into the US, will get cleaned out. No doubt British Petroleum ...

Crews worked Tuesday to clean what they could of a hydraulic oil spill that happened at the Braeburn Alloy Steel Plant Monday ...

BP forked out a mammoth $14bn in the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to patch up the leak and carry out the clean up operation The oil giant forked out a mammoth $14bn in the ...

However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

BP has been fined £7,000 over an oil spill during which 95 tonnes of crude oil was discharged off Shetland. Investigators found that a "process failure" led to the incident at the Clair Platform ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.