oil spill

Owners of a downtown office building began the cleanup process this week for an abandoned, submerged fuel oil tank that spilled its contents onto Sixth Street in January.

A permit granted by the city on Aug. 13 allowed the owners of the Littlefield Building, located on the corner of Sixth Street and Congress Avenue, to remove all traces of oil from inside the tank and surrounding soil beginning Monday.

Commercial shipping is severely disrupted following an oil spill on the Mississippi River in the United States.

The Supreme Court has reduced a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against energy giant Exxon for its role in an infamous 1989 maritime oil spill.

The pilot of a ship that spilt 58,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay is charged with criminal negligence.

The city of Austin uncovered the mystery owner of the tank that caused January's 10,000-gallon oil spill downtown.

The Littlefield Building on Sixth Street is the proprietor of the tank.

City of Austin spokesperson Lynne Lightsey said Austin Watershed Protection found documents at the Austin History Center and University libraries that said the building had requested the tank to be installed at a city council meeting in December of 1910.

Nineteen years ago, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaskan waters, resulting in the most notorious oil spill in modern times.

The Supreme Court weighs Exxon Mobil Corp.'s claim that it shouldn't pay billions in punitive damages.

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Thousands of people mobilized by South Korea's Coast Guard used shovels and buckets Sunday to clean up a disastrous oil spill polluting a swathe of the country's scenic and environmentally rich western coast.

South Korea declares a "state of disaster" along an area of coast hit by the country's worst-ever oil spill.