The suit estimates it is costing $1.2 billion for the Board of Water Supply to clean up and protect Oʻahu's drinking water wells.

Greenpeace has warned of a “potential environmental disaster” after two oil tankers collided near the Strait of Hormuz. Giant tankers ADALYNN and Front Eagle, crashed and caught fire in the ...

July 1970: Oil gushed for one hour from vents on an overflowing barge at Shell’s marine terminal at Wagner’s Point. The slick from the 67,000 gallon spill spread 15 miles.

Thousands of gallons of oil spilled into the water in Baltimore's Harbor East area Wednesday afternoon from diesel tanks supplying fuel to the Johns Hopkins Hospital care facilities, officials said.

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 ...

Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the response to a major oil spill off Louisiana's Gulf Coast this week, a leak ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill happened 15 years ago. “One of the things that people forgot about from the oil spill was just how overwhelming it was. I mean, the ...

RFE/RL staff Oil Spill Devastates Russian Coastline After Tanker Accident By RFE/RL staff - Dec 18, 2024, 1:00 PM CST ...

More than 120 million people in the Coral Triangle depend on small-scale agriculture, fishing and tourism for income. But busier shipping routes bring an increased risk of oil spills.

One person died and 16 other crew members were rescued. In their initial announcement, the coast guard said the oil spill had spread about 2 nautical miles due to a strong current.

Because oil is lighter than water, it rises through the ocean after spills, which are usually caused by leaking underwater pipelines or sometimes by natural processes. It was believed that when ...

The oil spill, which affected beaches along the island resort of Sentosa and other parts of Singapore’s southern shoreline, sparked a multi-day cleanup operation.