It didn’t say when the damage to the pipeline and the resultant oil spill occurred. Torrential rain fell in Veracruz and the ...

Mexico’s state-run oil company, Pemex, reports that recent torrential rains have caused a pipeline spill along the Pantepec ...

The cap on BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been holding, but that's only temporary. After more than three months, preparations are finally underway for finally sealing it once and for ...

Marine biologist who helped in Texas, Mexico encourages hope, caution. August 17, 2010 — -- In 1979, the collapse of the Ixtoc 1 rig emptied about 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of ...

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First system of the season a concern to Coast Guard, Gulf residents. CHAUVIN, La., June 25, 2010 — -- A tropical depression now slowly moving in the western Caribbean has sparked widespread fears ...

I responded to oil spills for decades. We’re no longer ready for a big one. A recent oil and gas spill near New Orleans took more than a week to contain. Over 70,000 gallons spewed from an old well ...

The Alaska congressional delegation’s reintroduction of their “Chugach Alaska Land Exchange and Oil Spill Recovery Act,” is an example of the sort of backroom deals between elected representatives and ...

A week from today will mark the one-year anniversary of the oil rig explosion of Deepwater Horizon that triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. For three months, rust-colored sludge gushed ...