Last month, an oil spill off the East Yorkshire coast affected dozens of seabirds, killing at least 15.
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Earth Day was conceived by U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 after he witnessed a massive oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California the previous year.
The Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 demonstrated how little improvement in oil cleanup technology had been made since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
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Transocean (RIG) executives may very well be indicted for a small oil spill far off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last month.
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Twelve years after an infamous spill from a well off Santa Barbara in 1969, Congress barred the government from issuing new offshore leases anywhere but in the western Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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Meanwhile, in Jiangxi, water supplies "return to normal" after a fuel spill in Lake Poyang cut off tap water for 60, 000 residents, China Central Television reports.
Ostler was fortunate to see James Hockley spill a sharp diving chance off Masters, and rubbed salt into Kent wounds with three booming fours off one James Tredwell over.
The judge also agreed to rule out punitive damages against Cameron International, the manufacturer of the blowout preventer on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig, which was rocked by an explosion and fire in 2010 that killed 11 workers and touched off the enormous spill.
The series, "Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, " kicked off last July with a three-part narrative about the oil spill and the environmental impacts of a type of oil called diluted bitumen, or dilbit.
More recently, Brazilian courts dropped criminal charges against the firm relating to its involvement in an oil spill in the Frade oil field, off the coast of Brazil.
Although the Obama administration recently proposed to allow a modest expansion of offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico as the first concessions since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, Atlantic and Pacific sites will remain off-limits to avoid a controversial decision before the election.
But some doctors are worried that harm will spill over to other patient groups, given the rampant off-label use of antipsychotics for treating ailments such as depression, Alzheimer's symptoms and anorexia.
Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.
The ongoing oil spill in the Gulf has unleashed a vibrant debate about the value of off-shore drilling.
The RSPB says this incident is "far worse than the Amoco Cadiz spill" of 1978, which involved more than 230, 000 tonnes of oil off north Brittany.
The oil spill has hampered the seafood business across the Gulf as federal and state authorities put much of its waters off-limits amid safety concerns.
"Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters -- the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, " the report says.
Late last year Chevron and deepwater driller Transocean incurred a relatively minor spill of a couple thousand barrels of oil-laced drilling mud at the Frade prospect they were drilling off the coast of Brazil.
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Under the plan, BP said that the worst spill from a mobile drilling operation would come from a lease called the Mississippi Canyon 462, about 33 miles off the Louisiana coast.
Yet she says they were aided by other federal agencies signing off on the drilling techniques used by BP, and never demanding a plan of action if a spill of this magnitude took place.
The Elgin leak has echoes of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 -- including the fact that both emerged as workers were closing off wells -- but there are differences.
Armstrong and USADA officials talked on and off over a couple of months about the terms of the cyclist sitting down for a long interview to spill all he knows about doping in cycling, but Armstrong said Wednesday he would not cooperate.
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