A propane-fueled torch sits amid oil and burnt marsh vegetation April 1, 2025, on Weeks Island in coastal Iberia Parish. Evidence of an oil leak – and unsuccessful efforts to clean it – remained ...
State officials said a fuel oil company making a delivery connected to the wrong pipe and sent about 170 gallons of diesel fuel into a drainpipe.
As a former supervisor of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s Spill Prevention and Response programs, I was trained in many of the Coast Guard’s Incident Command System classes and was the Incident Commander ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A robotic demonstration on Friday, showing just how much they are capable of when it comes to keeping the water clean and environmentally safe. The robot, a new tool created ...
(Nanowerk News) Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region’s ecosystem can be significant. This is especially true for the world’s Arctic ...
Its objectives were to explore research needs and other opportunities for improving public health preparedness, response, and protection related to oil spills; consider how to work within and how to ...
Baltimore officials have officially started clean-up efforts in Harbor East following a 2,000-gallon fuel spill on June 4. The leak was reportedly caused by the overfilling of two diesel tanks during ...
The decision to use dispersants on any given oil spill requires careful comparison of its health and environmental impacts compared to other available response options, including mechanical recovery, ...
In his op-ed, Levesque states “the Root Cause analysis of the Aug. 19, 2024 spill clearly demonstrates that Midcoast Regional ...
Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...