Ecuador's oil industry is grappling with a severe environmental disaster, marked by declining production, corroded infrastructure, frequent oil spills, and government inaction, leading to widespread ...

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One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst.

Two crew members from a tugboat involved in cleaning up an oil spill off Mauritius were killed late on Monday when their vessel collided with a barge in bad weather, a local lawmaker said.

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

The clean-up of a massive oil spill in August from a vessel off Mauritius will likely be mostly completed by January, the bulk carrier's owner, Japan's Nagashiki Shipping, said on Thursday.