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Oil spills

June 2024

  • An oil rig in the North Sea.

    North Sea oil and gas firm Perenco failing to seal old wells, documents show

  • A crowd of people hold up protest signs saying 'No more fossil fuels' and 'Kill the drill'

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences

April 2024

  • Tobias Billström and David Cameron

    ‘Russia doesn’t care’: Sweden sounds alarm over unsafe oil fleet

    Foreign minister warns of environmental catastrophe in Baltic Sea as he accuses Moscow of using unseaworthy vessels

March 2024

  • a boat photographed from above in a shimmering sea

    Officials investigating 2.5-mile long oil sheen off southern California coast

  • Aerial view of the Rubymar under water in the Red Sea

    Sinking of Rubymar in Red Sea poses grave environmental risks, experts warn

February 2024

  • Trinidad and Tobago: overturned barge leaks oil into Caribbean Sea – video report

    Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
  • overturned barge in the sea with black oil leaking from it into the water

    Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela

    Fuel continues to leak from overturned and abandoned barge as stain spreads into the Caribbean Sea
  • aerial picture of an overturned tanker in blue sea, gushing black oil

    Trinidad & Tobago says oil spill from mystery vessel is national emergency

    Upturned and largely submerged vessel of unknown origin is leaking hydrocarbon off south-west coast or Tobago

November 2023

  • A Clean Gulf Associates response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 miles south-east off South Pass Louisiana.

    US Coast Guard looking for source of pipeline leak in Gulf of Mexico

    A 67-mile long line was closed last Thursday after after an estimated 1m gallons of crude oil was released
  • BP Plc contract workers are reflected in a pool of oil as they use absorbent pads to clean beach at Grand Isle State Park in Grand Isle, Louisiana, U.S., on Sunday, June 6, 2010

    Greens say CSIRO’s independence must be protected after alleged collaboration with BP

    Exclusive: Australian scientific agency rejects ‘ghostwriting’ claims made by US law firm representing victims of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
  • People clean up oil from among the rocks on the shore

    Baltic Sea faces ‘critical challenges’ on climate and biodiversity, report warns

    Audit finds ‘little to no improvement’ in health of sea between 2016 and 2021, as Swedish coastguard battles oil spill

October 2023

  • Venezuelans handpick plastic and rake up oil in bid to save Lake Maracaibo – video

  • Mark Carney.

    Firms will hesitate to invest in UK after Sunak’s climate U-turns, says Mark Carney

September 2023

  • A rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico,

    Biden to sell three oil and gas leases over five years, angering climate advocates

  • An oil tanker is seen at an Iranian port. The trade in sanctioned oil has boomed over the last year.

    The trade in sanctioned oil is booming as the US turns a blind eye

August 2023

  • The FSO Safer, moored alongside the MT Yemen in the Red Sea.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The remarkable story of how Yemen’s oil tanker disaster was averted by crowdfunding

  • A view of The Nautica, a replacement oil tanker, moored against the decaying FSO Safer, off the coast of Ras Issa, Yemen.

    Yemen: UN removes 1m barrels of oil from ageing tanker to avert environmental catastrophe

July 2023

  • Environmentalists outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London protesting against Shell oil spills.

    ClientEarth loses high court fight with Shell over climate strategy

    Environmental law charity claims energy firm cannot achieve net zero goal with current transition plan

June 2023

  • Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The federal agency had not updated its rule regulating the chemicals used to break up offshore oil slicks since 1994.

    US government toughens rules on chemicals used to break up oil slicks

    Environmental activists sued EPA to update regulations, after thousands of people sickened from Deepwater Horizon cleanup

May 2023

  • Volunteers try to clean up oil spilled from the tanker Princess Empress, which sank off Mindoro island in February.

    The age of extinction
    Filipino activists appeal to British banks over region devastated by oil spill

    Environmentalists from the Philippines urge investors to avoid LNG projects which they say threaten the Verde Island Passage
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