A cancer-causing component of oil has been detected in the drinking water supply of an eastern Montana city downstream from a crude oil spill

Five years after the Gulf of Mexico disaster, oil company faces a fine of up to $13.7bn as Judge Carl Barbier begins assessment

Oil pumped in the Bakken leaked from a pipeline into the Yellowstone River near Glendive in Montana on Saturday.

BP Plc (BP/) faces a maximum fine of $13.7 billion after a U.S. judge ruled that the company dumped 3.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 -- about a quarter less than the U.S.

The government wants to keep the Sunderbans under surveillance using drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the wake of the colossal damage suffered by the mangrove forest last month due to oil sp

Disaster hit an upmarket housing complex on Durban's outskirts, December 23rd 2014, when more than 200 000 litres of diesel poured out of an underground pipeline.

A city environmental watchdog has lashed out against a giant petrochemical company and ordered it to apologize to the public in a rare case of government lambasting a State-owned corporation.

Oil giant Shell's agreement to pay £55 million (about N16 billion) to 15,600 fishermen in Bodo community in Ogoniland is not commensurate with the disaster it had visited on the area, an environmen

WARRI--A rupture in a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, at Otughievwen, Ughelli South Local Government Area, has contaminated the community's Gbogidi River.

SINGAPORE—Singapore is scrambling to clean up one of Asia’s largest oil spills in years after two ships collided late last week, amid worries the slick could spread to the nearby Indonesian tourist