Pictured: A worker retrieves an absorbent pad following an oil spill in San Francisco In some cases, oil-dispersing chemicals ...

The employee called the EPA oil spill hotline and deployed the park's spill kit, which includes absorbent pads and wattles, long tubes that soak up the oil in the water. The park's waterways were ...

As of the May 4 announcement, responders have deployed 15,000 feet of containment boom and 740 bales of absorbent boom (devices used in spills to block and absorb substances) to recover ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

Thousands of gallons of oil spilled into the water in Baltimore's Harbor East area Wednesday afternoon from diesel tanks supplying fuel to the Johns Hopkins Hospital care facilities, officials said.

The National Parks Board (NParks) called for a tender on July 25 for the supply and delivery of absorbent booms covering 1.65km, to replace what was used in cleaning up the recent oil spill.

Spill in West Nishnabotna River is the second the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has investigated at the site ...

Environmental cleanup efforts are underway Monday after oil spilled into the Muddy River in Brookline, Massachusetts. Experts estimate that about 100 gallons of what is believed to be home heating ...