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The EPA said 33,600 gallons of a mixture of brine production water and crude oil leaked into an unnamed tributary of the ...

There’s another oil spill? Can’t you just use a big sponge to clean it up? That might be possible. Researchers at Argonne National Labs have devised a sponge with properties that should make it ...

A 1998 oil spill of more than 100,000 liters in the North Sea had killed 13,000 birds in Wattenmeer national park, and the scientist had learned that cleaning oil-soaked birds could be as harmful to ...

It is the third time in just over two years that a contamination has been reported in the lake.

Mussels may be popular among seafood lovers, but many boaters consider them pests. They colonize ship bottoms, clog water pipes and stick to motors. To chemical engineers, though, those very same ...

Chevron has recovered at least 3.8 million gallons of liquid from a massive oil spill in Weld County, by far the largest amount of either oil or water recovered from any spill listed in a state ...

Meanwhile, the evidence shows that nearshore and in-port spills are four to five times more expensive to clean up than offshore spills and that heavy oil, such as bitumen, costs nearly 10 times more ...