Environmental group warns oil, debris remain 4 years after Harmar train derailment
Four years ago Tuesday, 17 Norfolk Southern trains derailed in Harmar Township, spilling 3,000 gallons of non-flammable petroleum distillate.
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Four years ago Tuesday, 17 Norfolk Southern trains derailed in Harmar Township, spilling 3,000 gallons of non-flammable petroleum distillate.
In 2024, Sunoco Pipeline spilled more fuel than any other pipeline in the United States, according to data reviewed by CBS News.
After crews were able to contain the leak, now environmental groups are working to learn if there was any damage done.
The fluid spilled out of the Braeburn Alloy Steel Plant and into the Allegheny River on Monday afternoon.
There is oil in the Monongahela River, and apparently, these slicks are an ongoing problem.
David K. Smith, 55, of Paducah, Kentucky, entered the plea in federal court in Huntington to discharge of refuse into navigable waters.
Precautionary water testing is underway at Ten Mile Creek due to an oil leak that occurred as a result of a fire.
A large oil spill is spanning across three lanes of traffic on Clairton Boulevard in West Mifflin.
An oil spill covered a Westmoreland County road Thursday morning.
Officials are working to determine the cause of an oil spill in the Youghiogheny River, near Connellsville.
Almost five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Obama administration has proposed new regulations aimed at strengthening oversight of offshore oil drilling equipment and ensuring that out-of-control wells can be sealed in an emergency.
BP is selling part of its stake in an emerging oil-producing region in the Gulf of Mexico to Chevron, and the two companies, along with Conoco Phillips, will work to develop the fields together.
The 2012 presidential campaign between President Obama and Mitt Romney will be book-ended by hurricanes.
In an effort to distract voters from his tax records, W. Mitt Romney launched a four pronged push back yesterday. Romney's problem: each move revealed more about the problems with his floundering campaign.
An accident involving an overturned tractor trailer has now been cleared, but it caused major traffic delays this morning when it forced crews to shut down a ramp from the Fort Pitt Bridge to the Fort Duquesne Bridge this morning downtown.
