When a single drop of oil spills in the ocean off the U.S. coast, it must, by law, be immediately reported to the 24-hour federal National Response Center, the designated federal point of contact ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How pollution may remain in water after oil spill cleanups Date: July 18, 2024 Source: University of Illinois Chicago Summary: The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may ...

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.

Enbridge failed to report a spill in early 2019 for more than a year even though the company was well aware that a large amount of an oil substance had been released near Fort Atkinson, also in ...

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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 ...