GALVESTON — About a dozen tar balls that washed ashore on Crystal Beach were identified Monday as oil from the BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the first evidence that oil from the spill ...

“It’s weeping oil,” says Clark, a geologist with a Canadian firm called Petroteq Energy that is poised to extract marketable crude from tar sands south of Vernal on aptly named Asphalt Ridg ...

Those tar mats could cause a re-oiling of some shorelines, according to the report. The report calls the lack of information about oil near shore a “sampling gap.” In recent weeks ...

Combating climate change — as rightly called for by The Post — means we cannot continue to aid and abet the proliferation of tar sands oil. Tar sands oil is not the right choice for America.

What is the Keystone XL Pipeline? The Keystone XL Pipeline would carry Canadian tar sand oil 875 miles from Morgan, Montana to Steele City, Nebraska. Built by TransCanada, it would allow the ...

The upper Texas coast is no stranger to those sightings, with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico creating one of the most significant tar ball events in history.

State officials reported tar balls and a large oil mat along the Gulf shore south of New Orleans, and the U.S. Coast Guard reported finding three oiled birds in the area on Monday. BP spokesman ...

Thousands of barrels of tar-sands oil have been burbling up into forest areas for at least six weeks in Cold Lake, Alberta, and it seems that nobody knows how to staunch the flow. An underground ...

Balls of tar and oil have been washing up on the beaches of the Coastal Bend this week Oil spill specialists say it is not uncommon for this to happen in the summer Can use dish soap or mineral ...