A variety of perspectives exist about the value and potential of dispersing surface slicks of spilled oil or refined products. These perspectives reflect varying degrees of knowledge and opinions ...

Satellite imagery suggests oil from a February spill linked to Pemex facilities in the Gulf of Mexico may still be spreading ...

Concern is growing around Bill C-22, which would change the rules around oil spill cleanups. The technology for cleaning up oil spills, such as using chemical dispersants, is not widely understood, ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

While the human toll of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine remains its most devastating consequence, another aspect of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

Tropical Storm Bonnie could help dissipate a giant oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, but could further damage fragile marshlands if heavy wind and waves drive more oil ashore, experts said today. The ...

COCODRIE, La. (WVUE) - Seafood industry business owners and workers in Terrebonne Parish say they are anxious about the effects of a recent oil leak. Oil leaked from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port ...

Clean Harbors employees work to clean up a heating oil spill in the Kenduskeag along Norumbega Parkway. About 75 gallons of heating oil spilled into the stream on Monday. Credit: Marie Weidmayer / BDN ...

Approximately 3 million gallons (10,000 metric tons [tonnes]) of oil or refined petroleum product 1 are spilled into the waters of the United States every year (NRC, 2003). This amount represents the ...