A lingering mystery of the Gulf oil spill is where the oil actually went. It seems now that the microbes in the water made a meal of it, but that doesn't mean we can rely on them for the next spill.

Regardless of how lousy they make the organization look, the Coast Guard's failures have much to teach us about how to better prepare for oil disasters.

The auto giant has devised a way to turn oil-soaked plastic boom material into plastic resin that that can be used for under-the-hood parts in the extended range electric Volt.

Chevron has announced that it plans to file an application for deepwater drilling permits in the Gulf. But while the oil giant doesn't have the abysmal safety record of BP, we should still be wary.

A panel from the National Academy of Engineering is publicly questioning BP's findings.

The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory reveals how many millions of barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico.

Bacteria have been rapidly eating a long undersea plume of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Terry Hazen, a microbial ecologist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his team published their research on these bacteria in the journal "Science."

The smoke has literally cleared from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Now comes the dirty work of figuring out who to blame.