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Industry operators in New Mexico reported 114,546 drilling-related liquid spills last year, adding up to 4.8 million gallons.
A new report shows the rate of spills from oil-and-gas drilling is dropping in some of the Mountain West’s top fossil ...
A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...
One of the island's main docks, some roads and a harbor will also be unreachable for a few hours on Wednesday, the park service said.
For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...
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 ...
The company is still remediating properties, crops, and testing samples for contamination from a spill in early April.
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.