One of Costa Rica’s three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable ...

Chaves and environment minister Franz Tattenbach revealed the administration contacted Norway looking to leverage the European country’s unrivaled experience profitably extracting oil and natural ...

The catastrophe killed 11 workers, sent over 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and washed onto the shores of the Gulf Coast. The spill continued for the next four weeks and two days ...

Doug Helton, NOAA emergency operations coordinator, said the imagery allows them to see where possible oil leaks are, so they can predict where they might go. “A big spill is really not based on ...