Oil Spill

An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas has shut down a major pipeline from Canada through the Plains and to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Investigators believe a massive cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline.

The Irving, Texas-based Fleur de Lis Energy and Fleur de Lis Operating, LLC, agreed to the settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act.

They say some wetlands were affected, but not any sources of drinking water.

Flooding in 2011 scoured the river bottom and exposed the buried pipeline, causing it to break along a stretch of river popular with anglers and boaters.

The pipeline was shut down Thursday by the operator, TransCanada.

The driver, 25-year-old Anthony Keele of Riverton, was wearing his seat belt and was not injured.

More than 25 tons of hot oil spilled into a creek bed after a rollover crash north of Manville on Tuesday, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.

People, fish and other critters don't want an oil spill to happen on the North Platte River, and energy companies, environmental agencies and first responders don't want to see one, either. So last Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency, Spectra Energy and more than 20 different crews from fire police and other departments participated in a drill to test their responses, EPA spokesman John

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and a team of attorneys are urging a federal judge to give final approval to a proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing arguments Thursday from lawyers who negotiated the deal and attorneys who object to it ...