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 ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

A 1,000-gallon diesel spill earlier this month near the Yukon River has prompted renewed objections to plans by a privately held oil company to drill in the region later this year. The truck was ...

As one of the biggest oil spills in history, it was no easy task to stop the leak.Since the damaged wellhead was located almost 5,000 feet below the surface, conventional repair techniques could ...

"Per Sable’s estimate, a worst-case spill from these pipelines could be 14 times the volume of the Refugio spill. And that, we believe, is a highly conservative estimate," Frankle said.