Pipeline Break Spills 45,000 Gallons of Diesel in Wyoming August 15, 2022 By Matthew Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A diesel pipeline in Wyoming owned by a company that’s being sued by federal prosecutors over...
Pipeline Company to Pay Nearly $1M over California Oil Spill July 29, 2022 HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The owner of an underwater oil pipeline that spilled some 25,000 gallons of crude into...
Officials Suggest Pipeline Company Hid Problems After Spill July 18, 2022 By Matthew Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a pipeline that broke in...
Dredging Company to Pay $1M for Restoration Work Oil Spill June 23, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil...
$230M Settlement Reached Over 2015 California Oil Spill May 16, 2022 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The owner of an oil pipeline that spewed thousands of barrels of crude oil onto Southern...
Peru’s ‘Worst Ecological Disaster’ Slams Small-Scale Fishing March 15, 2022 By Franklin Briceno CIUDAD PACHACUTEC, Peru (AP) — Walter de la Cruz scrambled down a large sand dune in the fog to reach...
Aging Oil-Storage Ships Pose Safety, Environmental Risks Around the World February 23, 2022 By Paul Burkhardt and Julian Lee The decades-old, oil-storage ship that blew up off the coast of Nigeria recently — killing some of its crew and...
1 Month After Oil Spill, Lima’s Beaches Empty, Cleanup Slow February 18, 2022 By Franklin Briceno LIMA, Peru (AP) — Dozens of beaches near Lima were deserted and thousands of fishermen remained without work Tuesday, one...
Pipeline Spills 300,000 Gallons of Diesel Near New Orleans January 14, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey and Matthew Brown NEW ORLEANS (AP)–A severely corroded pipeline ruptured and spilled more than 300,000 gallons (1.1 million liters) of diesel fuel just...
$475M Settlement Proposed in Longest-Running US Oil Spill December 27, 2021 By Janet McConnaughey NEW ORLEANS (AP)–A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay...