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 ...

With the debate raging louder than ever, Rolling Stone is in contact with one of the workers helping to build a pipeline to bring oil from the tar sands to the U.S. Read on for that anonymous ...

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.

A suspected oil spill has caused blobs of tar and oil-coated birds to wash up on US beaches. The pieces of tar are roughly the size of a sand dollar, measuring two to four inches in diameter ...

The second-largest tar sands oil spill in the country — which left a black pockmark on Kansas grasslands a few weeks ago — will be harder to clean compared to past oil spills. In early ...

BUT IT DOESN’T LET ME. SOME OF THE PEOPLE WE TALKED TO AT LAKE WORTH BEACH TELL US THEY ENCOUNTERED WHAT LOOKED LIKE TAR OR OIL WHILE WALKING ALONG THE SHORELINE SATURDAY. HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO TO ...

and they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s ’cause of the oil.’” Others at Hollywood Beach, Deerfield Beach, Boca Raton and Pompano Beach noticed the tar balls, though they were less pervasive and ...

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 ...

No recoverable oil remains in the water after a sheen was ... There were some clumps of tar along the beach but not enough to warrant a closure, and there did not appear to be any public health ...

Tar patties or balls are often remnants of an oil spill or produced from natural seeps. They are formed when winds and waves stretch, then break oil patches into smaller pieces, according to the ...