oil spills

Oil giant Exxon Mobil, once a revenue juggernaut, is fighting for its future.

As a possible ecological disaster is unfolding on the West Coast, advocates say it’s just one more example of the need for environmentally conscious investing.

A lawsuit filed last year argued the EPA was unreasonably dragging its feet in updating portions of a required national contingency plan on oil spills to reflect new science and updated testing procedures.

In a settlement with environmental groups, the Trump administration has agreed to designate critical Pacific Ocean habitat for endangered humpback whales. The suit by the Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Wishtoyo Foundation, a nonprofit that represents Native American tribes, was settled Friday in federal district court in San Francisco.

President Donald Trump on Friday tapped a chemical industry insider to run the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees emergency response to hazardous spills and cleanups of the nation’s most toxic sites. The White House announced that Trump has nominated Peter C. Wright to serve as EPA’s assistant administrator for Land and Emergency Management. Wright has worked as a corporate...

An estimated 25 to 50 gallons of oil apparently leaked from a pipeline on Monday, causing a spill into San Pablo Bay near the Phillips 66 refinery, a state Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesman said.

If parts of the planet are becoming like a furnace because of global warming, then the Arctic is best described as the world’s air-conditioning unit. The frozen north plays a crucial role in cooling the rest of the planet while reflecting some of the sun’s heat back into space....
But it, too, is beginning to overheat. Last year was the hottest...

Working to dismantle his predecessor’s environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. With one day left to rack up accomplishments before he reaches his 100th day in office, Trump signed an order reversing some of former President Barack Obama’s restrictions and instructing Interior Secretary Ryan...

Along an ancient, storied English coastline 50 years ago, residents woke to an “evil-smelling” dark slick that smothered seabirds and coated the shore in thick tar from a wrecked U.S.-owned tanker, NBC News reported. Up to 872,300 barrels of oil — 38.6 million gallons — poured into the sea when the 120,000-ton super tanker “Torrey Canyon” took a shortcut and...

Oakland firefighters are sounding the alarm over a lack of proper equipment.

Preliminary ground water testing found that a hazardous chemical leak at a Livermore oil field “does not pose a threat to water supply wells or groundwater resources in the area,” according to a newly released county report obtained by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit.

A splashy new idea for getting people to stop using San Francisco alleys and walls as toilets is being implemented in several of the city’s neighborhoods. The Department of Public Works is testing out a new paint that repels urine to discourage peeing on the sidewalk.