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The Sanchi oil tanker is estimated to have been carrying 8,450 barrels of bunker fuel at the time of its collision.
A 2011 Nebraska law prevents the state's Public Service Commission from factoring pipeline safety and leaks into its decision.
The country's 70,000 miles of crude oil pipelines leak quite often.
A boat floats on polluted water on the coast of Salamis Island on September 13th, 2017, in Salamis, Greece.
Drilling in the Arctic has just begun, but when it comes to the science of safety, it turns out there are still a lot of unknowns.
Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river—and we’re still cleaning it up.
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, justice comes with an infuriating loophole.
Scientists create a plant-based chemical that could one day be used to help clean up oil spills in the Arctic.
A collection of on-the-ground pictures and observations from Pacific Standard's staff.
The Department of the Interior says there’s a 75 percent chance of a major oil spill in the Arctic—and it’s willing to take that chance.
Biogeochemist Molly Redmond discusses the state of the Gulf of Mexico a year after the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill, looking at what's still unknown and how some lucky breaks kept damage from being even worse.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going — even if their activity is counterproductive or just for show.
Fear of unemployment leads places blighted by oil or coal to hold on all the tighter to those industries.
Even for a proven energy innovator like James Dehlsen, the path to offer solutions to the Gulf oil spill is uphill and rocky.
If Americans don't want the dubious comforts of a full-fledged nanny state, then they can't come running for comprehensive succor when some milk, or oil, spills.
Oil spill cleanup remains a most primitive science, but it hasn’t been for a want of experimentation. Here are seven methods that have met with varying success.
A tenuous compromise that promised to move a U.S. climate bill forward may be part of the Deepwater Horizon’s collateral damage.
Scientists studying 'natural' oil spills fear for a sea floor about to be overwhelmed by detritus from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite the agony of watching oil-sodden waters lap at pristine shores, our ham-fisted cleanups can do more harm than good, experts say.