Monday marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the largest ever spill in U.S. history at the time. The nearly 1,000-foot namesake tanker carrying tens of millions of gallons of oil ...

Thad Allen says this will “virtually assure us there’s no chance of oil leaking into the environment.” January 11, 2011 – The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

unloaded oil at Terminal No. 2 of the La Pampilla refinery in the region of Callao, near Lima. On Jan. 24, a second spill, smaller than the first, occurred at the same pipeline. The oil spread to ...