In five decades, at least 44 oil spills have affected US waters, according to NOAA. Every year, thousands of oil spills occur. NOAA is the agency tasked with responding to and cleaning up the mess.

Monday marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill ... of salmon and herring eggs. The spill negatively impacted wildlife populations for years. The spill had a catastrophic effect ...

A small Kansas county became a site of a significant pipeline failure last week as the Keystone Pipeline leaked an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek — the largest spill in its ...

An ominous chart pattern that formed in shares of BP Plc after its 2010 oil spill is now appearing in Volkswagen AG-- and that’s bad news for bulls. It’s known in the jargon of technical ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (507.2 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

A year after it happened, more or less, the exact anniversary of the 2021 oil spill near Huntington Beach – Oct. 1 or Oct. 2 – remains a subject of controversy. Likewise, the actual damage ...

Here’s what to know about oil and gas spills in New Mexico and recent state laws. Last year, the Center for Western Priorities reported the volume of New Mexico oil and produced water spills ...