A crude oil spill near Aamjiwnaang First Nation has raised alarm about industrial impacts on the St. Clair River. In this ...

The BP oil spill happened 15 years ago. It is still considered one of the worst environmental disasters this country has ever seen. The oil giant paid out $65 billion in cleanup costs, charges and ...

Biodegradation is an important natural process during oil spill cleanup. A new study revealed that using spill treating agents does not negatively impact naturally occurring biodegradation.

Using spill-treating agents to clean up oil spills does not significantly hinder naturally occurring oil biodegradation, ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

A decade after an oil spill in their community, Keith and Sue Havens discovered the same operator would build a gas pipeline ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons ...

State legislature needs to pass legislation to increase funding, and oil and gas companies need to participate in remediation ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge ...

In recent research, RMIT scientists found that this biochar can act as a powerful and affordable catalyst to help create bio-oil from plant ... turning biosolids into clean, reusable biochar.

Among the most critical roles are those played by animals that act as nature’s clean-up crew. These creatures help maintain ecosystem health by recycling nutrients, disposing of waste, and cleansing ...

Colombia's oil industry is facing new scandals involving environmental misdeeds, unreported oil spills, and human rights violations, with allegations against the national oil company Ecopetrol ...