A unified command included the state's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the ...

After the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout in 2010, rescuers rushed to save birds, like this pelican. In the end, it didn’t really matter, most birds died. Louisiana Governors Office / Alamy Stock Photo ...

As the final round of a storm series closes in on Southern California, crews are racing to clean up an oil spill in Ventura ...

As the final round of a storm series closes in on Southern California, crews are racing to clean up an oil spill in Ventura ...

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. “Gaining control of the ...

Oil coats the water’s surface near the shoreline in Baltimore in the Harbor East area Thursday, as crews work to contain and clean the affected area from a spill from diesel tanks supplying fuel to ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (CNS) -- The CEO of the company that owns the oil rig and underwater pipeline at the center of a massive leak off the coast of Huntington Beach insisted Wednesday the company ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Efforts to close a well spewing oil in the Gulf of Mexico are failing so the Coast Guard is considering lighting the mess on fire. Crews have been unable to stop thousands of ...

With the well capped and surface oil fast disappearing from the Gulf of Mexico, the response to the BP spill seems ready to move to a new phase—and possibly a less intense one. Right now BP is ...