Tag: Oil spills

MIAMI (news agencies) — A vibrant fishing industry, some of the world’s largest coral reefs, desalination plants supplying millions with drinking water. They’re all at risk from large amounts of ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (news agencies) — An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (news agencies) — Local activists and international environmental groups want Nigeria’s government to delay approving the sale of oil company Shell’s onshore assets, claiming Shell is trying to ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (news agencies) — A preliminary investigation into a mushrooming oil spill in waters near Trinidad and Tobago has found that an overturned and abandoned barge blamed ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (news agencies) — Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister said a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency” ...