Rhode Island has conserved 70 acres of coastal land in Portsmouth using settlement funds from a 2003 oil spill. The Bouchard B-120 oil spill released 98,000 gallons of fuel oil, impacting nearly 100 ...

The state has conserved 70 acres of coastal land in Portsmouth thanks to settlement funds from an oil spill that marred area waters more than 20 years ago. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental ...

FORT MILL — At the site of a controversial solar cell manufacturing plant, York County officials said 300 gallons of water diluted with a potent compound spilled on March 3. Officials at Silfab Solar ...

Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean up after and can cause catastrophic ecological damage — and there are ...

DC Health is set to lift the advisory against recreational contact with the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., weeks after a sewer line ruptured and spilled more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage ...

WASHINGTON — DC Water and District officials will host public meetings this week to address the ongoing fallout from the Potomac Interceptor collapse. It has been more than five weeks since a 72-inch ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Five weeks after a massive sewage spill into the Potomac River, DC Water officials said overflows have stopped and emergency repairs are on track. On Wednesday night, ...

Next Monday — that is the date the D.C. Department of Health has set for when it believes it will be safe for people to return to the river. The snow and ice have melted, and officials say E. coli ...

President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for D.C. on Saturday, permitting federal agencies to provide disaster assistance to address a massive sewage spill in the Potomac River. The ...

Maryland and Virginia Democrats are pressing local utility DC Water over a recent wastewater spill that leaked into the Potomac River, an incident that has also sparked some political tension in the ...