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State inspectors say an oil spill that sent hundreds of gallons of bunker oil into San Francisco Bay was caused by a fuel tank that overflowed during a morning refueling stop.
Australia launched an investigation Thursday into an oil rig leak that dumped thousands of barrels of fuel into the Timor Sea over more than two months before being plugged this week.
Cleanup crews are still sopping up fuel that washed up on Alameda County beaches after last week's oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
Crews worked Saturday to clean up fuel leaked into San Francisco Bay and care for a dozen birds one day after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water.
Crews are working to contain a fuel leak in San Francisco Bay after an oil tanker spilled hundreds of gallons into the water, creating a slick at least a mile long.
The Coast Guard says it has contained an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused when two tankers collided near Galveston, Texas.
The Coast Guard says three miles of the Houston Ship Channel are reopened after a 10,500-gallon oil spill closed the section during the weekend.
A northwestern Pennsylvania man was sentenced to two to 10 years in state prison for conspiring with his son to cause an oil spill in the Allegheny National Forest because he was upset with his former employer.
The Australian government sent a navy mine hunting ship to search Monday for hundreds of tons of chemicals lost overboard during a mishap that also blackened miles of beaches with fuel oil.
A mixture of oil and water leaking Wednesday from an Exxon Mobil platform spread across a mile of ocean off the Southern California coast, federal and state officials said.
Irish authorities said Tuesday they are monitoring a major oil spill that is drifting toward the Irish coast — the largest spill in the waters around Ireland in a decade.
Wildlife officials say an oil spill along the Des Plaines River near Chicago has been cleaned up.
The owner and operators of the tanker involved in South Korea's worst oil spill denied any wrongdoing Thursday and offered sympathy to locals affected by the environmental fallout.
Thousands of angry South Korean fishermen and residents of villages devastated by the country's worst oil spill scuffled with riot police Wednesday during a demonstration demanding quick compensation for their losses.
A court on Wednesday convicted Total SA in France's worst oil spill and ordered the petroleum giant and three other defendants to pay $285 million in compensation — the first time a French court has awarded damages for harming the environment.
The captains of a barge and its tugboat have been arrested on charges of causing the accident that led to South Korea's worst-ever oil spill, a coast guard official said Tuesday.
The ecosystem on South Korea's oil-covered coast should recover in three to five years after this month's oil spill, a U.N. expert said Friday.
A team of U.S. Coast Guard experts arrived in South Korea on Thursday to help with the country's worst oil spill, as hundreds of vessels struggled in bad weather to contain the disaster for a seventh day.
Chung Hwan-hyang surveyed the damage from South Korea's worst oil spill, saddened by the knowledge that the oyster farm she and her husband ran for 30 years was lost.
Thousands of people mobilized by South Korea's Coast Guard used shovels and buckets Sunday to clean up a disastrous oil spill polluting a swathe of the country's scenic and environmentally rich western coast.
Residents and emergency workers used buckets to remove dense crude oil from South Korea's western shore as the Coast Guard struggled in high waves and strong winds to contain the country's largest oil spill Saturday.
A crane-carrying vessel collided with an oil tanker off of South Korea's west coast on Friday, spilling more than 66,000 barrels of crude oil in what was believed to be South Korea's largest offshore oil leak, officials said.
An oil platform leak that has spilled thousands of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico could take several months to repair, state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos said.
A top Russian environmentalist on Wednesday disputed claims that more than 30,000 birds have died in an oil spill.
Fierce winds Tuesday hampered crews struggling to clean up in the wake of a killer storm that sank at least 11 ships and split an oil tanker in two, spilling tons of petroleum in the waters near this southern Russia seaport.
The hard glare of a far worse timeFoul sheen of bunker fuel on the bay in October and into another November, without any reason and with hardly more order than the last time it happened, which wasn't nearly long enough ago. And so there are shoreline closures and fishing closures.
Oil spill royal commission callThe discovery of an oil-like substance coating mangroves in the Northern Territory, less than 100km from the WA border, has intensified calls for the inquiry into the West Atlas oil rig disaster to have the powers of a royal commission.
Worsening Australian Timor Sea oil spill disaster - fire breaks out on leaking Oz oil rigFire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.
Oil spill a 'massive' risk to Australian marine speciesSYDNEY—A massive oil and gas leak off Australia's northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday.
Oil spill's unpaid bill an insult to work of volunteers | The Courier-Mail
Hair clippings mop up spills - Donated human and pet hair turned into mats that attract and hold oil particles in eco-friendly wayEco-friendly salon owner June Croken would always put the hair she snipped from clients into the compost – until she read that the City of Toronto doesn't accept hair in the Green Bin organics program.
Puget Sound: One oil spill away from disaster?It's a nightmare scenario: A large freighter bound for Seattle runs aground, pouring 2.1 million gallons of syrupy oil into north Puget Sound. Today, two decades after the Exxon Valdez dumped more than five times that much oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, there's still co …
20 Years Later: Exxon Valdez Spill Lingers Just after midnight on this day in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez crashed against a reef off the coast of Alaska. Within six or so hours of the incident, nearly 10.8 million gallons of crude oil had spilled into the surrounding waters of the Prince Island Sound.
t r u t h o u t | Stick Your Damn Hand in It20 years later Exxon's mess is still there...
Groomer recycles dog, cat hairExcerpt: Every week for the last decade, Linda Bruinsma has dumped about 50 pounds of dog hair and a couple of pounds of cat hair into the Douglas County landfill.
U.S. Navy vessels collide near IranA U.S. Navy submarine collided with a Navy amphibious ship Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, mildly injuring 15 sailors, according to the commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
Underwater objects could be missing ammonium nitrate containersTHE Australian navy may have found 23 of the 31 ammonium nitrate containers lost from a cargo ship off southeast Queensland and is deploying a second ship to search.
Cargo Ship Hits Pier, Oil Spill Fouls Waters of Howe Sound Off Squamish - Science - redOrbitAn oil spill fouled the waters of Howe Sound north of Vancouver on Friday, sending surfers scrambling out of the water. Dan Bate, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, said the cargo ship Westwood Anette hit a pier at a terminal and a fuel tank burst.
Guilty - Cosco Busan Pilot John Coata Faces JailtimeFirst revealed on gCaptain's Professional Mariner Forum last week, the news is now official… John Cota, pilot of the Cosco Busan, the ship that damaged San Francisco's Bay Bridge causing an oil spill, has plead guilty to charges and faces jail time.
NDP MP Don Davies drafts bill to ban oil tankers off B.C. coastDon Davies, the NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway, has drafted legislation to enshrine in law the federal moratorium that prohibits oil tankers from plying British Columbia's coastal waters.
Diesel spill still threatens fishThe Department of Fisheries and Oceans has ordered the company cleaning up a sprawling diesel spill in Lake Cowichan to immediately cut off the source of fuel threatening aquatic life in a nearby creek. A diesel tank from Lake Cowichan Gas that burst four months ago has contamin …
River Pilot's 'Passion' led to Oil SpillA river pilot who was investigating if his girlfriend was dating another man stayed away from work. In stead, he tried to give directives to the crew through a cell phone but the towboat hit an oil tanker, releasing 420,000 gallons of fuel oil into Mississippi River.
snopes.com: The Front Fell Off"The front fell off". On August 19th 2007, an oil tanker off the coast of Australia split in two, dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil. The brief video is funnier than most skits on SNL.
Hurricane Ike's Environmental Toll Large - Extensive Video, Photos, and Additional Detailed ReportageAn AP analysis of the Federal Government's findings thus far concerning the impacts of Hurricane Ike points to a major impact on the region's environment.
Governor Sarah Palin's reaction to Exxon Valdez decision: "The oil companies are our partners"Palin acknowledges in this interview that it was too bad that ExxonMobil was able to get their penalties for the Exxon Valdez oil spill reduced in a recent Supreme Court ruling to a fraction of the original judgment.
Busted Pipe Spilled About 5,000 Barrels on Illinois Farm Site is remote and crude fumes said to be heavy. Wabash River supplies water to area but water now being drawn from reservoir as a precaution.
McCain's Oil Drilling HoaxForced to cancel a planned visit to an oil platform off the Mississippi coast last week because of inclement weather -- and the untimely leaking of hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil by a shipwreck in the vicinity -- John McCain finally got his photo op at a Bakersfield derr …
Oil Spill is Real Reason Why McCain Canceled Press Event at Offshore Oil RigSo why exactly did Sen. John McCain cancel an event yesterday on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana? According to the McCain campaign, the event was canceled over weather concerns.
KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source | Court reduces Exxon Valdez damages 80 percentThe whole mess is a tragedy and demonstrates our government is not "of the people" or "by the people". Sadly it is "of the corporations" and "for the corporations".
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