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

The Gulf of Mexico was forever changed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil contamination decimated marine life, from ...

I’m furious. The cleanup is a joke,” said the homeowner on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 20. The homeowner, who asked that his name not be used publicly, called 9-1-1 ...

The Trump administration has announced new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades.

As the final round of a storm series closes in on Southern California, crews are racing to clean up an oil spill in Ventura County after about 420 gallons leaked into a remote creek, officials ...

Nearly every area of Alaska’s oceans are proposed for drilling. Oil spills there would threaten polar bears, walrus and bowhead and beluga whales, along with coastal communities dependent on healthy ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and Texas General Land Office continue cleaning up a spill in the Port of Galveston after a fuel oil tanker collided with a pier Tuesday night. According to a Coast Guard news ...

State Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked the federal government to drop a $128 million lawsuit against insurance companies over the longest-running spill in U.S. history — leaking off Louisiana's ...

Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage.

A tugboat that sank at the Bremerton Marina in Seattle continues to leak oil. The Dominion, a 130-foot tugboat, which sank around 4 p.m., Wednesday, was reported to contain an unknown amount of diesel ...

Cleanup crews said they’ve recovered close to 900 gallons of diesel fuel and lube oil from Sinclair Inlet after a 130-foot tugboat sank in Bremerton. At approximately 4 p.m. Wednesday, a boat called ...