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For Immediate Release September 15, 2006 (WEST TRENTON, N.J.)  -- The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) will hold a public hearing during its regularly scheduled business meeting on September 27, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. to consider…

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Public debates around whether and how teachers should discuss topics related to race and gender in the classroom have turned classrooms into political battlegrounds. Between April 2021 and January 2023, 18 states passed policies…

OR&R and its partners are planning further development of TAP, leveraging some of OR&R’s existing capabilities to inform planning and preparedness activities to better support the United States. Coast Guard (USCG) and other…

OR&R and its partners are planning further development of TAP, leveraging some of OR&R’s existing capabilities to inform planning and preparedness activities to better support the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and other response…

Workers who were likely exposed to dispersants while cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill experienced a range of health symptoms including cough and wheeze, and skin and eye irritation, according to scientists at the…

Clean Water Act Settlement Addresses July 2022 Crude Oil Pipeline Rupture into Oklahoma’s Skull Creek January 30, 2024 WASHINGTON – Today, the Environmental…

Researchers from the Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study (GuLF STUDY) found that workers involved in cleaning up the nation’s largest oil spill were 60% more likely than those who did not work on the cleanup to be diagnosed with asthma…

Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Pilot launched commercial UAS (drone) as part of field tests aboard USCG Cutter Blackfin. Image credit: NOAA.Oil spill response is an arduous process, involving various stakeholders, trustees, scientists,…

Volcanic activity reawakened on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland with a…

Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Pilots fly commercial UAS (drone) as part of field tests in Santa Barbara, CA. Image credit: NOAA. A hundred miles off the coast, a vessel grounds, leaking thousands of gallons of oil and endangering…

As of 6:30 p.m., March 28, 2023: The Philadelphia Water Department reported that the City of Philadelphia's drinking water will not be impacted by the spill and is safe to drink. The DRBC will continue to follow updates regarding this…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is providing funding from the SAMHSA Emergency Response Grants (SERG) to the state of Ohio to support…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is providing funding through a SAMHSA Emergency Response Grant (SERG) to the state of Pennsylvania to…

The GuLF STUDY continues to follow the nearly 33,000 participants enrolled in the original study to monitor potential health outcomes and answer important public health questions. (Photo courtesy of Cheryl Casey /…

Get a glimpse into how NOAA responds to oil spills and why spills happen in today's Diving Deeper Shorts.

St. Petersburg, FL, USA | 2023-Sep-01 Initial Notification: Late on August 31, 2023, a crude oil spill occurred at Port Manatee…

Advances in both visual displays and information sharing technology mean we can more rapidly let other agencies and the public know what we know. With a major oil spill or other disaster, responders,…

Guest: Riki Ott, Marine Biologist/Author of Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. In 1989 the landscape and coastal communities of Alaska/Prince William Sound and beyond changed forever following…

I recently attended the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science (GoMOSES) conference, where experts in the field of ecosystem science shared their knowledge about impacts of oil spills in the Gulf, and how this knowledge can…

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Did you know that naturally occurring oil seeps from the seafloor are the largest source of oil entering the world ocean? In fact, they account for nearly half of the oil released into the ocean environment every…

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Van Jones, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former environmental adviser to President Barack Obama, talks about ...

The United Nations Environment Programme has released a report mapping oil spills in Ogoniland. Mutiu Sunmonu, MD of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria comments on the report and outlines how the company is taking action to…

Northern Rockies Director of American Rivers based in Bozeman, Montana talks about the January 2015 oil spill on the Yellowstone River.

Ask Congress to help the fishing communities affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster:

On November 7th, the cargo ship Cosco Busan hit the San Francisco Bay Bridge, spilling 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into San Francisco Bay. This was a relatively small spill the Exxon Valdez was 200 times larger but poor response and…

Andrew Hartsig, Ocean Conservancy joins Thom. The Obama administration has announced that it will soon let Shell start drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean.

Jacob Ward reports from Durango where the river community tries to recover from the spill in the Animas.

The January 2014 spill at a Freedom Industries facility in West Virginia sent the toxic chemical MCHM into the river.

Actress Rhona Mitra joins Global Green to witness impacts of Gulf Oil Disaster & Cleanup; Call for Clean Energy Oil Soaked Bird at Myrtle Grove Marina; Meets with Plaquemines Parrish President Billy Nungesser to discuss Green Future