Sinking Ship Near Alaska Leaks Oil, Six Missing, Guard Says
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Six people who disappeared two days ago when a helicopter trying to rescue them crashed into Alaskan waters are still unaccounted for, a spokesman for the US Coast Guard said.
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Taliban fighters killed 15 Afghan guards working for a U.S. security company who were guarding a convoy of fuel tankers in western Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday. Six Taliban were killed in the ensuing fight.
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The offices of at least six Alaska legislators, including the son of Sen. Ted Stevens, were raided by federal agents searching for possible ties between the lawmakers and a large oil field services company, officials and aides said.
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The Coast Guard continues searching for six missing crewmembers from the 738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter Selendang Ayu who were lost when a Jayhawk rescue helicopter crashed Wednesday night.
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Six people were missing after a U.S.  Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the stormy Bering Sea after  plucking the last remaining crew members from a disabled  Malaysian cargo vessel, officials said on Thursday.
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A major spill of dense, viscous fuel from a freighter that ran aground was menacing sensitive wildlife habitat in the Aleutian Islands, but finding the six crew members lost
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Oil major BP Plc  is studying  ways to avoid a complete shutdown of its Prudhoe Bay oil field  in Alaska by using other pipelines to bypass the oil transit  pipelines it is shutting down following the discovery of  significant corrosion on one transit line over the weekend, a  BP Alaska spokesman said.
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The search for six crew members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on Saturday.
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.
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With the weather improving Sunday, the Coast Guard planned for a helicopter to lower a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska's coast &#151; a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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Six people were missing after a U.S.  Coast Guard helicopter crashed into the stormy Bering Sea after  plucking the last remaining crew members from a disabled  Malaysian cargo vessel, officials said on Thursday.  Those missing after the helicopter crash late on Wednesday  included crew members plucked from the stricken Seledang Ayu, a  738-foot Malaysian-flagged freighter that later split in two.  The ship was carrying soybeans, according to one news report.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Groups in Alaska have sued the U.S. Interior Department to block an offshore oil and gas lease sale that residents say threatens Arctic marine wildlife and the traditional Inupiat Eskimo way of life.
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DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - In the first few days after 1989&#39;s Exxon Valdez disaster, fishermen were forced to fell trees and drop them across favored spawning streams to halt the spread of oil.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Dec. 10--THE DULUTH-OWNED TUGBOAT SENECA -- grounded in Lake Superior near Grand Marais, Mich. -- is leaking oil, the U.S. Coast Guard said.   The tug became grounded Dec. 2 after its tow line with the tug Hoey became disconnected.
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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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A 6-foot gash has been discovered in the hull of a tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River Friday night, officials said yesterday.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and ecologically fragile wildlife refuge in the Aleutian Islands.