A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill prompted the first Earth Day.

A new report shows the rate of spills from oil-and-gas drilling is dropping in some of the Mountain West’s top fossil ...

E ugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) and other local organizations met Wednesday, October 16, for their annual "spill drill" to make sure they're up to snuff in the case of any oil spills on the ...

Industry operators in New Mexico reported 114,546 drilling-related liquid spills last year, adding up to 4.8 million gallons.

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work is being hit hard, explains this guest columnist.

On October 6, 2010 the commission released preliminary reports criticizing the Obama administration for mismanagement of its response to the 'Deepwater Horizon' oil spill. Amongst other things ...

Opponents of a federal plan to allow drilling off mid-Atlantic states said Friday that the massive spill in the Gulf Coast shows why expanding oil leases is a bad idea ...

In late April, 2010, global oil company BP was operating the oil-drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico when a sudden surge of natural gases broke through a well cap, traveling up ...

This single oil spill would eliminate 25,000 jobs in the Gulf region, including from businesses like mine that rely on the pristine Gulf for tourism, fishing and other ventures.