Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KIAH) – A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into surrounding waters and closing the only road to a smaller and separate island ...

Federal agents raided a business near Rio Hondo on Wednesday and charged the owner with fraudulently importing crude oil.

The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a 46-year-old Midland woman Thursday as a result of a two-year investigation into the "criminal underworld of oil theft." According to a DPS report, a ...

A barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday, spilling oil into waters near busy shipping channels and closing the only road to a small neighboring island. No injuries ...

Last week upriver traffic started, and among the first to move were 30 barges carrying 18,000 tons of Rumanian oil to Germany—about one-seventh of that blockaded country’s monthly oil quota ...

“We were notified of this barge capsize by the Bay of Plenty Regional ... and on-scene commander Matt Harrex earlier said no oil had spilt into the water from the capsize. Out of precaution ...

but oil booms have been used as a precaution. Photo / Supplied Diesel has been released into Tauranga Harbour following the capsizing of a barge at the Tauranga Bridge Marina. A statement from a ...