Two weeks after an oil pipeline leak was first discovered, neither its operators nor regulators say they’re any closer to ...

The spill sent 21,000 gallons of gasoline into a fish-bearing irrigation itch that drains into the Skagit River in Conway.

Spill-response crews planned to start digging up a blueberry farm near Everett on Tuesday to find the cause of a jet-fuel ...

A leak from a pipeline carrying jet fuel from the British Petroleum (BP) at Cherry Point in Whatcom County to Seattle-Tacoma ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster exposed the dangers of BP’s offshore operations. From ignored warnings to engineering failures ...

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at ...

Even if oil were pinpointed as the cause, it could be difficult to definitively tie the problem to the BP spill. The Gulf is strewn with wells, pipelines, natural oil leaks from the seafloor, and ...

While the world’s attention has been fixed on the nuclear crisis in Japan, we’re fast coming upon the one-year anniversary of another major environmental disaster: the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Dear EarthTalk: The three-year anniversary of the 2010 BP oil spill just passed. What do green groups think of the progress since in restoring the region? -- Mary Johannson, New York, N.Y. When an ...

Though you wouldn’t know it from the words chosen by angry American politicians—who can’t stop talking about the company’s Englishness—BP’s name doesn’t actually stand for British Petroleum anymore.