An oil spill Saturday morning at the Shell Puget Sound Refinery in Anacortes happened at an opportune time for participants in an oil spill response workshop. While representatives from federal, state ...

Spills don’t happen every day, so it can be easy to overlook the need to conduct spill response trainings. Skipping spill drills can compromise safety, expose employees to unfamiliar hazards and ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency have temporarily suspended oil spill response time requirements, and certain identification and location requirements, ...

State and federal agencies are investigating a recent mineral oil spill at Priest Rapids Dam as cleanup efforts conclude.

Research funded through oil industry tax will validate spill-tracking tools used by responders in one of the most complex ...

As a former supervisor of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s Spill Prevention and Response programs, I was trained in many of the Coast Guard’s Incident Command System classes and was the Incident Commander ...

Sometime shortly after the lid is removed from a preschooler’s sippy cup and is carried to the table, the glass slips and the milk is spilled on the floor. Reactions to this event can vary, but most ...

Two new oil spill response barges were recently completed at ASL Shipyard in Singapore for Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC). The two 3,500 tonne barges, Sentinel 303 and Sentinel 304 ...

Baltimore officials have officially started clean-up efforts in Harbor East following a 2,000-gallon fuel spill on June 4. The leak was reportedly caused by the overfilling of two diesel tanks during ...

Oil is set to flow through the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, but there is still no oil spill response plan in place for the section of pipe that crosses the Missouri River just upstream from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover innovation within the green/blue industrial revolution. 13 August 2020: just a month ago, the large iron ore vessel was on ...