A divided federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by a coalition of environmental groups to revoke federal approval of Royal Dutch Shell Plc's oil spill response plans related to drilling on Alaska's remote Arctic coast. By a 2-1…
A blast at a military plant in central Bulgaria killed one and injured four others on Saturday, the interior ministry said in a statement. The ministry said the accident occurred during a planned experimental production test at the military complex…
20 fire crews struggle to contain blaze at Rotem Amfert factory amid worries dangerous substances could burn Twenty firefighting crews were attempting to extinguish a huge blaze Wednesday afternoon at a chemical plant in the southern desert down of Dimona.…
Leaking containers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are at risk of possible hydrogen explosions, according to Japan’s nuclear regulator. The Fukushima facility, owned and operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), was hit by an earthquake and …
The cost of cleaning up last month's oil spill that fouled beaches along the California coast has reached $62 million, the pipeline company said Wednesday. Patrick Hodgins, the Plains All American Pipeline’s on-scene coordinator, told The Associated Press that costs…
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana's president says the death toll from a gas station explosion in the capital and widespread flooding has increased to 150 people. John Dramani Mahama told journalists Thursday evening that the country would observe three days of mourning…
CONEWAGO, Pa. (AP) — Officials are working to determine the cause of a fire that raged for hours at a south-central Pennsylvania chemical plant. https://youtu.be/f_MpV3ntgD0 The blaze broke out around 3:30 a.m. Monday at Miller Chemical and Fertilizer in Conewago, Adams County. It continued to smolder…
Washington, D.C., June 11, 2015 – The US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released its draft investigation report into the 2009 massive explosion at the Caribbean Petroleum, or CAPECO, terminal facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico; the draft report includes…
Several firefighters are feared to have died in a huge explosion at a fuel depot outside the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on June 9. The subsequent fire was described as "gigantic" by the country's interior minister, Arsen Avakov. Three firefighters are…
Over 24 hours after an explosion rocked the vandalised Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline at Ije Ododo, Lagos, emergency workers are yet to access the scene of fire. THISDAY gathered that even though the fire is still raging hours…
