According to a Coast Guard news release, a vessel owned by Netherlands-based Forestwave Navigation BV struck Pier 32 shortly ...

An oil spill forced authorities to close the Galveston Ship Channel, leading to delays and last-minute changes for cruises.

Federal and state authorities are cleaning up an oil spill in the Port of Galveston after a ship collided with a pier late ...

The Galveston Ship Channel was closed from Gulf Copper to Pelican Island Bridge after an oil discharge was reported Tuesday ...

GALVESTON - The Galveston Ship Channel is partially closed off after an oil spill was reported Tuesday night, according to ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at ...

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—June 21, 2010 -- Science teachers nationwide are using the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a "teachable moment" as the school years ends, with most saying environmental issues will ...

With the coastal cleanup apparently downshifting and BP in the final stages of preparing for a static kill operation to help close the well, we may all soon need something new to obsess/post about.

Over on the main page, TIME’s Michael Grunwald has a contrarian take on the Gulf oil spill. Far from being the greatest environmental catastrophe in American history—as everyone from President Obama ...