Environmental booms used in oil spills are meant to stop the spread of hydrocarbons (oil). They can work by containing the spill to certain areas or they can act as an absorbent which skims oil off ...

The bureau also said it had finished blocking the ship’s oil tank and installing an oil containment boom in waters in Yehliu (野柳), Kueiho (龜吼), Dawulun (大武崙) and near the Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant, ...

Volunteers in Mauritius are scrambling to create cordons to keep leaking oil from a ship away from ... said it had tried to place its own containment booms around the vessel but had not been ...

Oil containment booms have been deployed for what Balilo earlier described as "the worst case scenario" of the cargo leaking out. The vessel sank nearly seven kilometres (four miles) from its ...

An environmental contractor had already deployed a containment boom as a precaution when one of the eight train cars that derailed landed in the creek around 9 p.m. Saturday. A light oil sheen was ...

The Coast Guard is in action after a No. 3 fuel oil spill at the Puma Energy dock sent approximately 1,000 gallons into San ...

Concerns from Okemah residents about their drinking water quality after photos of an oil spill in Okemah lake circulated ...