Environment News Service: A federal judge in New Orleans today set his stamp of approval on an $18.7 billion civil settlement in the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier approved the agreement reached with the U.S. government and five Gulf states: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas -- resolving years of litigation over the worst offshore...