It'll be the beach's second major overhaul in a decade.

In a massive undertaking that reveals eight years in the West Wing, a colossal new archive has laid bare the inner workings ...

The massive, deep-sea oil discovery was quietly announced in early September during the blur of the US election season by Talos Energy, a U.S.-based firm that has been eyeing the Gulf of Mexico’s ...

County officials said the oil did not reach nearby homes or bodies of water and only extended about 10 feet from the plant's fence line. First responders placed containment booms around the site to ...

Aircraft spread dispersants to try to break up the oil spill. Rough seas helped break oil into smaller droplets. This kept oil suspended in the water (not just floating on the surface), which can ...

The collapse of a pipe on the Potomac Interceptor sewer line caused more than 200 million gallons of sewer wastewater to gush ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for ...

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over what he says is as a lagging response to a January pipe ...

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As the effects of climate change intensify, it has become standard practice for major corporations to pledge their support for environmental sustainability. This is as it should be, because genuine ...

Carole Allen — founder of HEART (Help Endangered Animals Ridley Turtles) and the first director of the Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Gulf of Mexico office — passed away at the age of 90. For ...

Progress on the National Oil Spill Response and Monitoring Infrastructure Project, which is meant to strengthen the country’s preparedness for oil spill emergencies, has stalled due to inadequate ...