ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Shell Oil cleared one of the last remaining hurdles to Arctic offshore drilling Friday as the federal government said it has approved the company’s spill response plan for the ...

SEATTLE — The Olympic Pipeline, east of Everett, has had service partially restored after being shut down for more than a week due to an oil leak. This is the third leak the pipeline has had in five ...

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 ...

The Valdez Marine Terminal, where North Slope crude oil is offloaded onto ocean tankers. Stakeholders in Valdez are embroiled in a dispute over oil spill protections at the terminal there, at the end ...

Every day, millions of gallons of oil move from the Arctic through the trans-Alaska pipeline to the small coastal town of Valdez, 600 miles away. There, high above the waters of Prince William Sound, ...