The Navy says a fire raging aboard a docked U.S. warship has moved away from fuel tanks, easing the threat of an explosion or a million-gallon oil spill in the San Diego harbor.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has chastised the billionaire owner of a nickel giant over a massive fuel oil spill that has inflicted huge damage on a fragile Arctic region. An estimated 20,000 tons of diesel oil spilled last Friday from a broken tank a

Senator Jacky Rosen says UNR has received more than $2.2 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for research on combating environmental disasters in Nevada – specifically aimed at wildfire prevention and oil spill clean-up.

Environmentalists are lauding a federal court order that blocks a Trump administration permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, pending an environmental review. 

The cost of cleaning up last month's oil spill on the California coast has reached $69 million so far. Costs are running at $3 million a day, and there's no timetable for when the cleanup will be complete.

A sea lion has died after its rescue from the oil spill at Refugio State Beach, but two other animals continue to be treated at SeaWorld San Diego.

Officials have closed a 160-square-mile section of ocean to fishing because of the oil spill on the Santa Barbara coast.