Study: Dispersants Dumped on BP Oil Spill Sickened Workers
Chemical oil dispersants dumped in the Gulf of Mexico during BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill sickened thousands of cleanup workers exposed to them, a new study published by the National Institutes of...
View ArticlePhillips 66 Drops Controversial California Oil Train Expansion Plan
Phillips 66 has agreed to drop its lawsuit challenging the California county of San Louis Obispo’s denial of a proposed oil train terminal the energy corporation wanted to build in the coastal town of...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Spills 210,000 Gallons of Oil in South Dakota
TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline spilled about 210,000 gallons of oil Thursday, Nov. 16 in northeastern South Dakota, just days before regulators decide whether to allow another extension of the...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Spill Risk Estimates Wildly Inaccurate, Reuters Finds
TransCanada Corp. grossly underestimated or understated its spill projections for its existing Keystone pipeline in documents it provided to regulators before the line became operational in 2010....
View ArticleAnadarko Benzene Spill Cleanup Underway In Colorado
Cleanup efforts are underway to remove tons of benzene contaminated soil and water from an Anadarko battery tank site in Dacono, Colorado, a community just east of Boulder. The Texas-based petroleum...
View ArticleConverting Oil Spills to Fertile Land: a Bioremediation Mission
Oil spills on land result in countless tons of contaminated soil being discarded in a landfill, but what if there were a way to treat the spilled oil in a way that benefits the land and eliminates...
View ArticlePipeline Break Floods Indiana River with Jet Fuel
A pipeline failure released more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into the St. Mary’s River in northeastern Indiana Sept. 7, and officials warned a cleanup could take several weeks to complete. Bernie...
View ArticleOil Dispersants Used In Deepwater Horizon Spill Likely Did More Harm Than Good
The chemical oil dispersants BP used in its response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill did little to mitigate the massive spill and likely did more harm than good, researchers from the University...
View ArticleGas Pipeline Spill Response Inadequate, New Mexico Officials Say
Cleanup of fuel from a gasoline pipeline that ruptured in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, last month is slow and deficient, state environmental officials warned at a County Commission meeting Jan. 22. The...
View ArticleRegulatory Rollbacks Put Profits Over Public Health, Environment
Coal, oil, gas and other big industrial polluters are poised to make billions of dollars in added profits due to the Trump Administration’s environmental and safety rollbacks, but an Associated Press...
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