The proposal comes as other operators of aging wind farms in the region plan to swap out old turbines, which can ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

Vigils were scheduled Wednesday in Gulf Coast states to mark the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history. On the night of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon burst into flames after ...

In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to ...

An area estimated to be as large as 1,000 football fields has been covered in oil so far. While clean-up methods are underway, big spills are difficult to contain.

While the long-term effects of Wednesday’s 5,000-gallon oil spill in the Baltimore Harbor are unknown, the city’s jewel has seen much worse. In August 1975, a Shell Oil barge leaked 135,000 ...

The Coast Guard said the cause of the spill and the responsible party are still under investigation as of Monday. The United States Coast Guard said Monday that about 19,000 gallons of oil-water ...

Thousands of gallons of oil spilled into the water in Baltimore's Harbor East area Wednesday afternoon from diesel tanks supplying fuel to the Johns Hopkins Hospital care facilities, officials said.

The oil spill can be seen in the satellite images to be moving out of Trinidad and Tobago's marine area and into Grenada's southernmost marine area, which is feared to affect nearby Venezuela.

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July 1970: Oil gushed for one hour from vents on an overflowing barge at Shell’s marine terminal at Wagner’s Point. The slick from the 67,000 gallon spill spread 15 miles. Sept. 1970: More ...