Diesel Fuel Spill Clean-Up Difficult
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By Dave Greber  MIDDLETOWN  --  Underground gas lines and nearby Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks are making the cleanup of a 10,000-gallon diesel fuel spill difficult, officials from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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People are being warned to stay away from a stretch of beach in Devon due to contamination of the water with diesel fuel from a stricken ship.
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Google's searching for a solution to our fuel woes.
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The legacy from environmental irresponsibility still hangs heavily over the city of Bhopal in India. Two decades after the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster, the site still needs to be cleaned up.
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Petrol retailers are baffled by claims that contaminated fuel has led to hundreds of car break-downs.
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A more aggressive approach by local and state agencies to remedying pollution from duck farms is the latest challenge for the local industry, which is also facing high utility, feed and land costs.
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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As the search for six victims of a rescue helicopter crash was scaled back, officials on Friday turned to a growing problem stemming from the break up of a cargo ship off Alaska: a major oil spill near a sensitive wildlife refuge.
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BP Plc BP.L has cleaned up 900 of   the 1,000 barrels of gas oil that spilled from a BP-owned   pipeline at the Port of Long Beach, near Los Angeles, BP   spokesman Scott Dean said Wednesday.
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Life & style: On a London industrial estate, 25,000 litres of used cooking oil are turned into biodiesel every month - so why the flak from environmentalists?
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in Albany Exxon Mobil isn't moving fast enough to clean up a 50-year-old oil spill in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Ducks and geese coated in crude oil were carried to a national wildlife refuge yesterday by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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Dwindling petroleum engineers create another challenge for the industry.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Mar. 1--A leaky vehicle has spilled diesel fuel on southbound Highway 99, starting at the Crows Landing Road onramp and leading to a store on Hatch Road.
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By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 18--Despite federal warnings, the state has not set aside enough money to clean up leaks from buried petroleum tanks that threaten drinking water across South Carolina.
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To Texas litigator Scott Summy, methyl tertiary butyl ether, the gasoline additive that reduces air pollution, is the devil--and his savior. He claims to have proof that Big Oil knew that MTBE-laced gasoline would leak out of filling station tanks into the ground and contaminate water supplies across America--and is therefore culpable in a big public hazard. "We are talking about the public's drinking water, and these guys have intentionally contaminated it to the largest scale ever in this country," says Summy.