a cataclysmic oil spill nearly 50 years ago changed the identity of Northeast Greenpoint. Prologis is one of the most prominent owners of industrial properties across the country, sporting a major ...

According to Crain's New York, the Northeast Greenpoint area, which was previously home to various petroleum companies since the 1830s, suffered a significant oil spill in 1978, and cleanup ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

He and other volunteers were tasked with shoveling away the oil-drenched sand, but “the scale is just too big,” he said. Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the spill ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

An oil spill in Nigeria's delta region has caused a fire that is yet to be contained. A subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited blames the spill on oil thieves. Accidents are ...

The faulty pipe connection that caused the spill was installed in the 1970s, the pipeline operator said in a Jan. 10 report.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Poppy was able to do something with ease that’s proven far more challenging for humans and their machines: she sniffed out an oil spill submerged in water and ...

An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate action taken by authorities or operators to ...