Grounded Freighter Spills Fuel in Alaska
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In this photo released by Unalaska Community Broadcasting, the two halfs of the Malaysian cargo ship Selendang Ayu sit on the rocks about 400-500 yards offshore in Skan Bay on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island chain Thursday, Dec.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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FARMINGTON -- A tanker truck spilled about 500 gallons of diesel fuel it was hauling after catching fire Saturday on U.S. 89.  About 2 p.m., as the tanker merged from I-15 onto U.S.
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Coast Guard officials Monday said an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska&#39;s coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
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A disabled freighter loaded with tons of soybeans and a half million gallons of its own fuel was adrift Wednesday in the Bering Sea and in danger of grounding on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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By Chris Conley, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 5--Two tanker cars that derailed and spilled a corrosive chemical on  Presidents Island this morning were pulled upright by about 1:30 p.m. and the  leaks sealed, Memphis Fire Department division chief Kenneth Reeves said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - U.S. and Alaskan authorities   on Thursday demanded $92.2 million from Exxon Mobil XOM.N for   environmental damages linked to the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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A 738-foot-long freighter broke in half in the Bering Sea in Alaska and is leaking thousands of gallons of heavy fuel and diesel into the water.
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High wind gusting across the Bering Sea hampered efforts Friday to stem an oil spill from a broken freighter, and there was still no sign of six crew members lost when a rescue helicopter crashed in the turbulent waters.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts on Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea.
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The Border Heather's engines cut out A tanker which was drifting near Wick in "awful" weather conditions has been towed to safety.Comment
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Spill a little wasabi at home and, well, it's messy. Spill some in the weightlessness of the international space station and you're looking at a major cleanup job. By the Associated Press.
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Fuel from a Norwegian cruise ship has spilled onto the coastline of an Antarctic island after the vessel ran aground nearby, a scientist from Spain's base in the area said on Thursday.
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter, but pollution responders said they managed to begin setting up initial
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Leaking propane from two 12,000-gallon tanks caught fire during a firefighter training exercise on the Salt Lake City International Airport grounds about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday.  The fire did not impact flights, said airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann.