Fuel spill closes San Francisco beaches
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A container ship bound for China struck a fog-shrouded tower of San Francisco's Bay Bridge on Wednesday morning, causing a fuel spill and forcing the closure of several San Francisco beaches, officials said.
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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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The Houston Ship Channel was closed to inbound vessels Thursday morning due to a dense sea fog that made navigation unsafe, the Houston Pilots Association said.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 19--MANATEE -- Workers laid down absorbent cloth along the shore and monitored containment booms in the water at Port Manatee on Monday after 900 gallons of oil used by Florida Power and Light Co. leaked into Tampa Bay.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - The weekend cleanup of a popular stretch of beach netted the usual garbage: clothing, beer bottles and rusty nails...
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By Dan Cortez and Steve Neavling, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 5--Two St. Clair Shores beaches were closed today due to high E.coli bacteria levels.
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State and federal agencies scrambled Friday to limit the damage from an oil spill that left deposits on 21 miles of Puget Sound shoreline.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Crude futures closed under $46 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since late September and heating-oil and unleaded gasoline prices dropped more than 6 percent following an across-the-board climb in US petroleum inventories.
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SUNRAY, Texas  - Federal safety investigators were headed to Valero Energy Corp.'s Sunray, Texas, refinery on Saturday, shut since Friday by an explosion in a residual crude unit.
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A ship carrying orange juice and a dredging vessel collided in Newark Bay on Thursday, closing the bay to all ship traffic, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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CORAL HARBOUR, Nunavut (CP) - An estimated 200 litres of fuel spilled near the northern coastal community of Coral Harbour during a resupply operation Friday, Nunavut officials said.
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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
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Nearly three million gallons (11 million liters) of partially treated sewage and storm water spilled into San Francisco Bay off the coast of affluent Marin County, officials said on Friday, just months after a major oil spill hit the bay.
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By George Kelly, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 22--SUNOL -- Caltrans sweeper trucks and workers from a local gravel plant are working to remove a quarter-mile gravel spill from the Andrade Road onramp to northbound Interstate 680 this morning, the Highway Patrol said.
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A tanker carrying 455,000 barrels of low-sulphur fuel oil grounded off New York City on Thursday but was not leaking, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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A pipeline that supplies Arizona with about 70 percent of its gasoline, diesel and jet fuel was operating again today after being shut down in the aftermath of severe rain in Southern California.
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Emergency services deal with a chemical scare on a beach after oil barrels cause noxious fumes.