The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.

In an almost offhand digression Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump idly mentioned he was going to change the name of the ...

The Gulf of Mexico has been known by many names over the years. Renaming it could cause navigational issues for international ...

Biden invoked the 2010 BP oil spill, but his ban doesn’t include the area of the Gulf where the spill occurred.

Emergency workers clean up the beaches of the Black Sea in southern Russia following an oil spill which occured on December 15. Russia's Delfa centre, which rescues and provides rehabilitation for ...

Environmental groups applauded President Joe Biden’s decision on Monday to enact a sweeping ban on new offshore oil and gas ...

Texas Republicans are pushing back against a ban on oil and gas leasing along the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines announced ...

Enbridge Inc. said Saturday that 60% of the 960 barrels of oil that were spilled on Nov. 11 in Wisconsin has been cleaned up and any affected soil is being removed ... of the spill, Juli Keller ...

Donald Trump says he will reverse the ban, even though he put temporary protections in place before the 2020 presidential ...

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared ...

The outgoing president put forward a new ban on offshore drilling that relies on an obscure 1956 law that may make it ...