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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge ruled Friday evening denying Sable Offshore Corp.’s request for an immediate transfer of permits to restart old oil and gas facilities on California’s Central Coast. The transfer ...

Cleanup efforts have culminated after as much as 30 gallons of oil spilled at Minnesota's Duluth Harbor on Lake Superior on Tuesday. "We can confirm we are involved, and we are responding to that ...

A section of Route 3 in Clifton was closed Sept. 3 after a truck spilled cooking oil on the roadway. The Clifton Police Department stated that the eastbound portion of the highway between Bloomfield ...

New Jersey’s coastal businesses are at risk right now from a hidden threat that could spell disaster at a moment’s notice: oil spills. Our state has been largely protected from offshore oil drilling ...

More than 2,300 shrimpers, boat owners and seafood businesses from across the Gulf Coast are suing two companies over an oil spill off Louisiana's coast on Aug. 8, 2022 — the opening day of shrimping ...

A commercial shipping company is paying the price for an oil spill in Puget Sound. The Washington Department of Ecology fined Liberty Marine Corporation $32,000 for a 2023 spill near Manchester State ...