A cleanup is underway for an oil leak in East Rockaway. Officials say about 1,000 gallons of cooling oil leaked from a power transmission line into Mill River. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa has more. Credit: ...

Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean up after and can cause catastrophic ecological damage — and there are ...

Since Jan. 19, residents of a Maryland county just outside Washington have been dealing with a broken sewer pipe that so far has pumped more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac ...

After more than six decades of cleaning up messes, Mr. Clean is "retiring." In a Thursday, Feb. 18 news conference, Mr. Clean announced that he was "hanging up his whites" and taking some much-needed ...

“Now the White House wants to get involved, even though I was doing — we were doing their job for the past month,” he told CNN. “And so if the president wants me to ask nicely, here’s my nice ask to ...

President Donald Trump is blaming Democratic leaders in the metropolitan area encompassing Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia for a massive sewage spill that contaminated the Potomac River, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump on Monday said that FEMA would step in to play a key role in the clean-up of a massive sewage spill in the ...

A 60-year-old sewer line break in Maryland has sent more than 240 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the Potomac River, igniting a political firestorm. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.

Feb. 16 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Monday said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency would play a key role in cleaning up 200 million to 300 million gallons of sewage that have spilled ...

KINGMAN COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - Update Feb. 17: The Kansas Health Department issued the following statement: On Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, a spill of crude oil and produced water from a tank battery in ...

A pipe rupture at the New Colgate Powerhouse led to the oil sheen and debris spill. Crews installed a containment boom and hired a cleanup contractor. The Yuba Water Agency is conducting ongoing water ...

A roughly 300 million-gallon sewage spill into the Potomac River — which environmental advocates say rivals the scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster — could take several more months to fully ...