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

Moreover, an AP review of BP's regional oil-spill plan found that it failed to specifically address all of the points required by the MMS in a blowout scenario. The blowout scenario rules ...

Oil Spill's Economic Impact Mostly Local June 28, 2010 / 4:58 AM EDT / CBS/AP The BP oil spill has hammered the fishing and tourism industries along the Gulf of Mexico.

An oil spill in Lake Charles, Louisiana happened at a facility managed by a Houston-based company. Those on the scene say the spill was small and could have been a lot worse.

Study: An Arctic Oil Well Blowout Could Spread More Than 1,000km Oil from a spill or oil well blowout in the Arctic waters of Canada's Beaufort Sea could easily become trapped in sea ice and ...

When oil spills happen, researchers are faced with the difficult choice of whether to use chemical dispersants, authors say.

Imagine an oil slick quickly growing through the Straits of Mackinac from a rupture of the 62-year-old, twin pipelines known as Line 5 traversing the bottom of where Lakes Michigan and Huron ...

The companies that get their hands dirty cleaning up after major oil spills say they’re ready to help should this Pentagon scenario for Iraq come to pass: a new oil disaster, this time inside ...

Fortunately, this scenario was a drill, and only a drill, thought up by IOSA director Elaina Thompson in order to bring local, state and federal and tribal agencies together. The event lasted for ...

“If this sizable fraction of oil is being transformed by sunlight and is dissolving into seawater, that might mean that less oil is ending up in other places, like sensitive coastal ecosystems ...

For example, it may have difficulty finding alternative suppliers in locations like Afghanistan. Also, selling fuel is one of the lowest margin businesses oil companies operate.

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 ...