The top 10 oil spill response technologies for preventing and treating spills include satellite monitoring, chemical dispersants and containment booms

New leasing and drilling “inevitably” means new oil spills, which has devastated Santa Barbara in the past, said Maggie Hall, EDC’s deputy chief counsel, in a statement. She cited the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill and 2015 Refugio Oil Spill as proof that “the risk is unacceptable.”

Rush says ocean can take care of itself. May 3, 2010— -- Scientists and environmentalists scoffed at Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that the ocean would clean up itself following a devastating accident in the Gulf of Mexico that has resulted in a miles ...

The Interior Department announced a second sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf, set for March. The sales stop at the Florida-Alabama state line.

The groups claim the sale upends decades of precedent requiring the Department of the Interior to study a project's potential environmental harms and disclose them to the public before approving the project.

Using AI to fuse satellite synthetic aperture radar and hyperspectral imaging could lead to faster mitigation of oceanic oil spills.