The Interior Department announced a second sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf, set for March. The sales stop at the Florida ...

Nearly every area of Alaska’s oceans are proposed for drilling. Oil spills there would threaten polar bears, walrus and bowhead and beluga whales, along with coastal communities dependent on healthy ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Safety Alert following a recent oil spill on the Delaware River.The Alert says the incident starkly underscored the critical need for effective communication when ...

A big-rig crash that caused an oil spill closed most lanes of northbound Interstate 805 near state Route 52 during Monday's morning commute. Lanes of northbound I-805 near Clairemont Mesa Boulevard ...

Update 6:30 p.m.:Although the Galveston ferry is up and running again (on a 7 a.m. to 7p.m. schedule) there’s still no word on when the Houston Ship Channel will reopen after more than 150,000 gallons ...

I responded to oil spills for decades. We’re no longer ready for a big one. A recent oil and gas spill near New Orleans took more than a week to contain. Over 70,000 gallons spewed from an old well ...

Scientists at Texas A&M University-Galveston were able to get out on the water last week to analyze the effect of the recent oil spill on local sea life. The group of Texas A&M scientists was asked by ...

Deepwater Horizon, also known as the BP oil spill of 2010, is one of the largest marine oil spills in the history of the petroleum industry. It damaged miles of coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, ...