As if BP wasn't in enough trouble, the company now has Henry Waxman on its case. Waxman has long been one of the House's a most brutal investigators—back in the '90s, he and his staff dredged up those ...

WASHINGTON — BP, running weeks behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars over budget in trying to complete its troubled Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, took many shortcuts that contributed ...

* Well was more than 40 days behind schedule -lawmakers * BP engineer saw Macondo as a 'nightmare well' * Halliburton warned of severe gas flow problem -lawmakers (Adds details, BP declines to comment ...

COVINGTON, La. -- Senior managers complained oil giant BP was "taking shortcuts" by replacing heavy drilling fluid with saltwater in the well that blew out, triggering the massive oil spill in the ...

The lead investigator for the presidential panel delving into the BP oil spill said Monday that he had found no evidence that anyone involved in drilling the doomed well had taken safety shortcuts to ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released dozens of internal documents that outline several problems on the deepsea rig in the days and weeks before the April 20 explosion that set in motion ...

WASHINGTON — The lead investigator for the presidential panel delving into the BP oil spill said on Monday that he had found no evidence that anyone involved in drilling the doomed well had taken ...

I run an office here in the Northern Ohio that serves the public. We all are at-will government employees. We all could become complacent in our jobs. And complacency rarely gets anyone fired. My ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc took risky shortcuts in drilling its Macondo well that "increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure," two U.S. lawmakers probing the well's blow-out and the worst ...