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Oil Spill

Judge Accepts Transocean Guilty Plea in Gulf Oil Spill

Judge Accepts Transocean Guilty Plea in Gulf Oil Spill

February 15, 2013

NYT: A federal judge in New Orleans approved on Thursday Transocean’s agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and pay $400 million in more…

Arctic Nations’ Oil Spill Plans Too Vague, Environmentalists Claim

Arctic Nations’ Oil Spill Plans Too Vague, Environmentalists Claim

February 5, 2013

Reuters: Plans by Arctic nations to start cooperating over oil spills are vague and fail to define corporate liability for any accidents in an icy more…

Mississippi River: Barge with 80,000 Gallons Oil Hits Bridge

Mississippi River: Barge with 80,000 Gallons Oil Hits Bridge

January 28, 2013

AP: A barge carrying 80,000 gallons of oil hit a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., on Sunday, spilling light crude into the Mississippi River and more…

Grounded Alaskan Oil Ship Shows No Sign of Leakage

Grounded Alaskan Oil Ship Shows No Sign of Leakage

January 2, 2013

The Guardian: Two aircraft have flown over an oil drilling ship that ran aground in a severe Alaskan storm and saw no sign that the vessel was more…

Exxon shuts pipeline after oil leak offshore Nigeria

Exxon shuts pipeline after oil leak offshore Nigeria

November 12, 2012

Reuters: Exxon (XOM.N) has shut a pipeline off the coast of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state after an oil leak started by an unknown cause, the company's more…

Diesel Cleanup Continues, ‘Luckily’ It’s Not Crude

Diesel Cleanup Continues, ‘Luckily’ It’s Not Crude

November 2, 2012

Huffington Post: During the peak of superstorm Sandy, a storm surge and full-moon high tide coincided to cause waters to rise an unprecedented 13 feet in more…

An Oil Spill in the Arctic Would be Irreversible

September 5, 2012

Ocean Physicist Says Current Clean-Up Methods Useless In An Arctic Oil Spill
Radio Free Europe : New research suggests that global warming is causing the more…

Largest Environmental Disaster in Curacao History

August 30, 2012

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — An extensive fuel spill has fouled a stretch of shoreline and oiled pink flamingos and other wildlife in a nature preserve more…

4YR Old Shell Oil Spill in Nigeria Still Not Cleaned Up

August 6, 2012

Nigerian oil spill haunts locals four years later
Al Jazeera : Mohammed Adow reports from the town of Bodo

In 2008, a spill caused by a more…

Researching Ocean Currents & Oil Spills

July 24, 2012

Largest Research Expedition of its Kind Near the Site of Deepwater Horizon Incident
Unprecedented GLAD experiment at the heart of improving oil spill and at-sea more…