Oil Spills

Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry

2013-05-02 13:30:00

The seafood is safe to eat and the Gulf of Mexico tourism industry is recovering three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the waters off Louisiana. But despite that BP-sponsored...

Arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline losses

2013-04-12 06:30:00

The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spill were particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up an industrial mess in a peaceful burg....

UC expert questions BP management's role in gulf oil spill

2013-02-26 10:49:00

An expert witness for those suing BP over the nation’s worst environmental disaster criticized the company’s investigation of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the civil trial entered its second day. UC Berkeley engineering professor...

Drilling company enters guilty plea in Gulf oil spill

2013-02-14 13:35:00

Transocean Deepwater Inc., an oil drilling company, formally pleaded guilty on Thursday to a misdemeanor charge and will pay $400 million in criminal penalties, the latest action in the 2010 Gulf oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in New...

BP pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2010 gulf oil spill

2013-01-29 14:16:00

A federal judge in New Orleans accepted an agreement for BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record fine in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which ranks as one of the nation’s worst environmental...

Cleanup continues after Mississippi River barge oil spill

2013-01-28 09:06:00

At least 21 vessels were backed up along the Mississippi River as authorities worked on Monday to clean up an oil spill from a barge that hit a railroad bridge near Vicksburg, Miss. Officials have placed more than 2,500 feet of boom to contain the...

Oil spills after two barges strike Mississippi River bridge

2013-01-27 16:21:00

Oil spilled into the Mississippi River after two oil barges hit a bridge near Vicksburg, Miss., early Sunday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. The barges, laden with crude oil, were being pulled by the tow boat Nature's Way Endeavor when they...

No apparent leak after empty oil tanker hits Bay Bridge

2013-01-07 15:32:46

Problems prompt federal review of Arctic drilling operations

2013-01-08 18:17:00

After a series of problems plagued the debut of offshore oil drilling in the U.S. Arctic, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar�Tuesday ordered a high-level, expedited review of oil operations in Alaskan waters aimed at achieving “safe and responsible...

Arctic shipping is disaster waiting to happen, safety group warns

2012-12-10 11:52:00

Ferrying a load of soybeans from Seattle to China in 2004, the engine of Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu lost power and the vessel broke in half on rocks off Unalaska Island in the middle of the Alaskan archipelago. A ferocious Bering Sea storm...

BP shut out of U.S. contracts: Feds cite deadly blast, poor response

2012-11-28 09:45:00

BP, which has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with the nation's worst offshore oil spill, was suspended from new government contracts on Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced. In suspending the company, the...

Greenpeace scales Russian oil platform to protest Arctic drilling

2012-08-24 10:53:03

A shrimp boat helps collect oil after the 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A civil trial is set to begin this week with billions at stake for oil giant BP and Gulf states affected by the spill.

2013-02-24 15:45:36

An oil spill caused by a fire at the Rex Forge forging plant in Southington on Tuesday will take several days to clean, officials said. An estimated 1,000 gallons of oil leaked into the Quinnipiac River, but officials say the spill has been contained.

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Jerry Goodwin, left, part of crew of a dozen deployed by the unified command of the spill response, is collecting tar balls from the Pensacola Beach on Friday, June 4, 2010. Tar balls began to wash up on Pensacola Beach, Fla.

2010-06-04 00:00:00