Coastal Restoration

The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a container ship on Saturday in the Port of Long Beach that dragged its anchor close to a subsea pipeline found to be the source of an oil spill off Orange County, California, it said in a press release.

Groundwater samples collected from irrigation, monitoring, and municipal supply wells near the Oxnard Oil Field were analyzed for chemical and isotopi…

A Japanese ship that ran aground on a reef off Mauritius two weeks ago has now stopped leaking oil into the Indian Ocean but the island nation must still prepare for "a worst case scenario", Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said late on Monday.

Members of the bipartisan commission created to investigate the spill say Congress and the Trump administration have failed to take safety seriously.

The explosive fire that broke out Tuesday at the West Coast's largest oil refinery was sparked in a section of the plant that California inspectors recently cited for workplace safety violations.

Nurdles are a raw feedstock used to make most of the plastic products we use everyday, but they're flooding the ocean as "mermaid tears".

Researchers analyzed high-definition imagery of over three hundred deep-sea coral colonies from 2011 – 2017 to quantify their recovery from the oil spill.

The continuous oil leak from the 2004 Taylor Energy accident will be daunting to clean up, and stopping the leak is an even greater challenge.

Artist was best known locally for his iconic Dolphin Family statue in the fountain at the base of Stearns Wharf

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed two bills that would block new offshore oil drilling in California by barring the construction of pipelines, piers, wharves or other infrastructure necessary to transport the oil and gas from federal waters to state land.

A section of oil pipeline was confirmed to have been damaged and moved more than 100 feet along the ocean floor, another indication that a ship’s anchor may have caused the oil spill in Huntington Beach.

The location of the Mauritian oil spill means the environmental consequences could be long-lasting.

A power plant manager is arrested after 20,000 tonnes of oil polluted an Arctic river.

I've been getting several questions, so here is my quick update on oil & gas resources potentially impacted by the Maria Fire. This was as of 8:00m on th

Fifty years after the Santa Barbara oil spill, we can trace how that crisis shaped California institutions, attitudes and relationships with the environment.

The explosion came amid an epidemic of fuel thefts across the country. Initial reports said more than 70 were injured.

The Coast Guard has ordered Taylor Energy Company to contain and clean up the spill, which has leaked more than a million barrels of oil since 2004, or face fines of $40,000 per day. The order, issued Oct. 23, came one day after The Washington Post reported that the ongoing spill verged on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.

Chevron Corp. has agreed to pay a nearly $3-million fine and spend $160 million on environmental improvements and upgrading oil refineries to resolve allegations that it violated pollution laws, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES — A pipeline company was convicted of nine criminal charges Friday for causing the worst California coastal spill in 25 years, a disaster that blackened popular beaches for miles, kille…

A Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury has declared a mistrial on three counts against Plains All-American Pipeline but has found the company guilty on all other counts against them, including knowingly discharging oil into state waters and failing to have an adequate response plan.