Oil spill

West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.

In the final episode of Slick Science, we learn how corporations like Exxon fight back with research they fund.

In episode two of Slick Science, we get to be a fly on the wall of the courtroom as 12 ordinary Alaskans decide whether to punish Exxon for spilling millions of gallons of oil in Prince William Sound.

Our newest podcast, a co-production with Cited Podcast, reinvestigates the Exxon Valdez spill 35 years later, bringing new voices, new information and new stories to one of history’s most infamous environmental disasters.

Trans Mountain will have to repay the banks, with interest, and experts warn it is unlikely the company will be able to repay banks based on the project’s construction costs, tolls and international oil markets.

An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas shut down a major pipeline that carries oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, briefly causing oil prices to rise on Thursday, December 8, 2022.

A judge has approved a $230 million lawsuit settlement by the owners of a pipeline that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off California in 2015, lawyers announced on Thursday, September 22, 2022.

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup costs of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.

A controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in a Ugandan National Park to a port in Tanzania breaches global environmental guidelines for banks, according to a new nonprofit report on Tuesday, July 5, 2022.

When Trans Mountain's new pipeline and facilities are ready to operate, the company says "a slight increase" to its $1-billion liabilities plan for the existing pipeline will be sufficient to cover the risk of an oil spill on either the current line or its new counterpart.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will concentrate the government's efforts on a long-standing state court action against pipeline owner Enbridge Inc. that was originally filed in 2019.

Canada's offshore oil and gas regulator has laid three charges against a Cenovus Energy Inc. subsidiary stemming from a huge oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland in 2018.

It took little more than 48 hours from the moment a major oil spill was discovered off Southern California until the first lawsuit was filed against the Houston company that owns and operates the ruptured pipeline.

The Straits of Mackinac, a “sacred wellspring of Anishinaabe life and culture,” is part of an area ceded to the U.S. in 1836 only upon assurances that the right to hunt, fish and gather would be protected, tribal governments say.

The energy needs of Eastern Canada largely depend on a leaky old pipeline operated Enbridge, writes journalist and author Trevor Greene.