Kansas hit with oil spill, flooding
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - Kansas officials said on Monday they were trying to contain damage from a significant oil refinery spill that occurred over the weekend as raging floodwaters wreaked havoc through the southeast part of the state.
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An oil spill spread out over Puget  Sound on Thursday, covering an area of several square miles of  water just north of the port city of Tacoma, Washington state  officials said.
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By JAMES MacPHERSON  ALEXANDER, N.D. - A year after a ruptured pipeline spilled nearly 1 million gallons of saltwater into a northwestern North Dakota creek, Ned Hermanson is giving up.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.
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Residents were still not allowed to return to their flooded homes Sunday because of high levels of fecal coliform bacteria and an oil spill that coated houses and lawns in a slimy, smelly goo a week ago.
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By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 10--HUTCHINSON -- Disaster aid for drought-stricken parts of the state, money challenges to the 2007 farm bill, changes to farm policy, and gaining markets for U.S.
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By DYLAN T. LOVAN  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With a dozen people dead from weekend flooding in the Midwest and South, residents were busy shoveling mud from homes and businesses that were inundated with water.
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Office staff returned to work at the Coffeyville Resources refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas, which was shut by severe flooding earlier this week, the company said in a press release.
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Environment officials assess the damage after 300 gallons of heating oil leaks from a tanker in a coastal town.
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The price of oil jumped to another high on Monday, in part because of dramatic disruptions caused by hurricanes whipping through the Gulf of Mexico.
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PHILADELPHIA Nov 27, 2004 - A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick that threatened fish and birds, Coast Guard officials said Saturday.
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By Anna Staatz  By Anna Staatz  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Kansas may have to purchase storage rights in three federal reservoirs to prevent water in them from being released to enhance navigation on the Missouri River.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, Nfld. -- An oil spill on Newfoundland&#39;s Grand Banks is larger than first reported. The Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board now says that up to 1,000 barrels of oil may have spilled into
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A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, federal officials said Saturday.
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Hurricane Ivan, which left a swath of  death and destruction across the Caribbean, wrought havoc on  oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico before rampaging  across the Florida and Alabama coast on Thursday.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town   next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch   disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the   giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.