South Louisiana marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill this week. Why it matters: The spill remains the largest ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.

The BP Deepwater Horizon spill forced massive job losses and damage to ecosystems and wildlife and nearly put a Gulf boat ...

The University of Southern Mississippi has had researchers involved since the early stages of the 2010 disaster.

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons ...

FILE – Oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip, as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) FILE – In this April ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean ...

FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years ...