It was all hands-on deck, or rather, on the Clay Kaserne airfield, as trainees reacted to the effects of a notional hazardous material spill. The training was part of a two-day spill prevention and ...

Submitted by San Juan County. This week, the Islands Oil Spill Association hosted a two-day training that pulled together volunteers and representatives from numerous federal, state, tribal and local ...

After nearly 30 years without a significant oil spill in Alaska’s waters, it’s tempting to think that we can relax our vigilance. But we cannot. At no time since the Exxon Valdez has there been so ...

Sometime shortly after the lid is removed from a preschooler’s sippy cup and is carried to the table, the glass slips and the milk is spilled on the floor. Reactions to this event can vary, but most ...

Fifteen years after the nation's largest oil spill, the amount of petroleum products unleashed into the environment in the Puget Sound region and around the country has declined dramatically, say ...

If you haven't heard of an SPCC plan, you're not alone. Hundreds of Maine facility owners and operators across the state are quickly learning the importance of the acronym as the deadline for ...

As a former supervisor of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s Spill Prevention and Response programs, I was trained in many of the Coast Guard’s Incident Command System classes and was the Incident Commander ...

Although oil leaks naturally from fractures in the earth, most oil spills are destructive and a result of human error. This includes equipment malfunction or ...