An oil spill forced authorities to close the Galveston Ship Channel, leading to delays and last-minute changes for cruises.

Devastating Hurricane Melissa wasn’t the only alarming event that disrupted cruises this week. Not long after Category 5 ...

Federal and state authorities are cleaning up an oil spill in the Port of Galveston after a ship collided with a pier late ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and Texas General Land Office continue cleaning up a spill in the Port of Galveston after a fuel oil ...

The Coast Guard along with the Texas General Land Office is responding to an oil discharge which occurred near Galveston, ...

GALVESTON - The Galveston Ship Channel is partially closed off after an oil spill was reported Tuesday night, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Officials say the spill happened just before 10 p.m.

Louisiana emergency officials continued cleanup efforts Sunday of a large oil spill in Bayou Lafourche that was first detected early Saturday and traced to a leaking fuel tank at the Crescent ...

Questions about the health risks posed by last year’s Gulf oil spill are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, despite a recently initiated study involving 55,000 clean-up workers, according to public ...

Restoration efforts of an oil spill that migrated along a two-mile stretch of Horsepen Bayou were expected to conclude this week, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. ExxonMobil ...

Oil spills continue to pose a serious threat to avian species worldwide. The contamination of aquatic and coastal ecosystems not only results in immediate mortality but also provokes sublethal effects ...

* Doctors urged to watch for short, long-term effects * Contamination of seafood among health concerns By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Doctors in the Gulf Coast region need to be ...