A factory in Wednesfield has been evacuated after a tank holding more than 30,000 litres of corrosive acid collapsed. Emergency services at the scene at Watery Lane Industrial Estate Around 40 staff have been evacuated from Edward Howell Galvanizers on...
Oil giant faces potentially huge compensation bill for environmental damage BP paid $20.8bn settlement in US but so far nothing in Mexico for Gulf oil spill US fire boat crews battle the blazing remnants of the BP-operated offshore oil rig,...
Firm pleads guilty to two separate incidents, including five tonnes of oil entering the Manchester ship canal, reports the Ends Report In July 2012 long residue oil was released into the atmosphere from a faulty roof at Essar’s Stanlow refinery....
New EU directive has come into force with tougher rules on water quality Environment Agency say the new test will be twice as tough to pass Up 25 beaches in England are at risk of being blacklisted as unsafe for...
THE RNLI is dealing with a fuel spillage in Holes Bay. The leak involved a lifeboat moored at its base at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution training centre in West Quay Road. A spokesman for the charity said the fuel was diesel and...
A clean-up operation is under way after 4,500 litres of red diesel spilt into a brook in Leicestershire. The diesel came from a storage tank on a farm near Kibworth Harcourt hit by vandals on Friday night or early Saturday...
As thousands of gallons of crude oil from a ruptured pipeline spread along the California coast, its operator was unable to contact workers near the break to get information the company needed to alert federal emergency officials, records released Wednesday...
Cleanup crews continued to mop up oil-stained beaches along California's Central Coast two weeks after an onshore underground pipeline ruptured, leaking thousands of gallons of crude into the Pacific. The May 19 spill occurred along the same stretch of Santa...
Fish Legal will confront 3 Water and Sewerage companies at the Royal Courts of Justice, London, for a 4 day trial from 24-27 November 2014 that will have industry-wide implications, to argue that the public should have a right under...
