Reading this guide will help you, the laboratory worker, have fewer spills. It will also help you plan for an appropriate response when spills do occur. Many spills in the laboratory work area can be ...

EPA’s delay in updating its oil-spill response plan to reflect scientific knowledge about the dangers of dispersant use is inexcusable and unlawful,” said Claudia Polsky, director of the UC-Berkeley ...

“The EPA is today operating pursuant to a 26-year-old plan for oil spill response that proved dangerous and ineffective a decade ago in the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. EPA’s ongoing failure to ...

In a separate spill-response plan for the whole Gulf, the company claimed that it could recover nearly 500,000 barrels a day using standard technology, so that even a worst-case spill would do ...

In the Gulf of Mexico, all subsea operators are required to submit an Oil Spill Response Plan and Regional Containment Demonstration Plan to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement ...

Advances in nanotechnology may provide solutions to oil spill cleanups in coastal regions that are more effective, safer and work much faster than current methods, according to a new paper. The paper ...

The Environmental Defense Center works to prevent Sable restart of offshore oil drilling over safety and climate concerns.

The payout would cover just a fraction of the cleanup costs the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has accrued since ...

Hurricane Helene triggered more than 2,000 landslides, hazardous spills, and infrastructure failures in North Carolina.