Oil spill closes boat launches on Columbia River near Priest ...
2 days ago · Boat launches are closed on the stretch of the Columbia River between the Vernita Bridge and Pasco following an oil spill at Priest Rapids Dam. The Washington Department of Ecology and …
The BP oil spill, 15 years later: How Texas is spending its ...
6 days ago · In 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, pouring 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill devastated Gulf ecosystems and marine life: up to hundreds of thousands of …
What are oil spills and where do they come from? Coastal ...
Each year, millions of tons of trash and other debris enters our ocean, and thousands of oil spills occur in U.S. waters. And pollution from other sources, like fertilizer from our yards, builds up in waterways …
Large Oil Spills | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
Mar 1, 2019 · Oil spills, such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, are impactful environmental disasters that have long lasting effects to the landscape, native species, and inhabitants who depend …
Federal authorities are cleaning up an oil spill in southeast ...
Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week.
National Response Center | US EPA
6 days ago · The NRC is the federal government's national communications center, which is staffed 24 hours a day by U.S. Coast Guard officers and marine science technicians. Sole federal point of …