A social media powered website which allows the public to collect and share oil spill data has been developed by Edinburgh web-developers EdgeCase in an effort to help the clean-up around the Gulf of ...
IT TOOK THE 1989 massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska to nudge Congress into passing the Oil Pollution Act in 1990, which made oil companies responsible for paying all spill cleanup costs. The law ...
CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING OUT $65 ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...