A Massachusetts couple experienced a home heating oil spill on their property. They assumed insurance would cover the cleanup ...

A rule change two years ago by the federal agency that regulates offshore oil rigs allowed BP to avoid filing a plan specifically for handling a major spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its ...

The BP oil spill has hammered the fishing and tourism industries along the Gulf of Mexico. But it appears the economic damage to the rest of the nation will be limited.

That scenario is a real possibility if a Line 5 spill were to occur in bad weather, according to the U.S. Coast Guard and the pipeline owner's contracted spill responder.

Houston Matters Oil spill involving Houston company was ‘best case scenario’, Coast Guard says. An oil spill in Lake Charles, Louisiana happened at a facility managed by a Houston-based company.

BP has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks, as estimates of the volume of oil leaking from its Gulf of Mexico well have risen and politicians blame corner-cutting for the accident.

Specialized hardware and troops exist to join any war in Iraq — not to fire weapons but to clean up any oil spills caused either by fighting or intentionally by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The scenario; begining at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, June 2, a caller reported the presence of numerous “blobs” of heavy oil comming ashore at Fourth of July Beach on San Juan Island, at 4:50 p.m. a ...

That spill became the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history, ... A series of hypothetical spill scenarios were created, all with varying oil slick thickness, ... For example, the Arctic waters ...

Emergency responders from different agencies train in mock oil spill scenario in St. Johns River. By Jessica Barreto, Action News Jax. November 30, 2022 at 2:09 pm EST.

Spilling 50,000 gallons of home heating oil into the Hudson River could turn ugly in a hurry. In 12 hours, such a spill could spread to cover more than five miles of river with floating oil if ...