President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown , a federal judge in San Francisco ordered on Wednesday. U.S. District Ju ...

Federal environmental officials received two reports of an oil sheen threatening Lake Pontchartrain — possibly from the ...

A fire and explosion on a crude palm oil tanker at a shipyard on Indonesia’s Batam Island has killed at least 10 people and injured 21.

An environmental assessment of a north Transcona scrapyard that was razed by fire in May found higher-than-acceptable levels ...

The Merchant Marine operates in both peacetime and wartime, but its services are particularly valuable during times of ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

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Through thick, black smoke and radiating heat, a firefighter in full turnout gear can be intimidating, especially for a child in a crisis. Each October, firefighters across the country promote fire ...

It’s National Fire Safety Month, and the need for awareness campaign was never more apparent during the fall of 1940 across ...

Just north of Wichita you can find the El Dorado oilfield, which produced so much oil that it was dubbed the Oilfield that Won WWI. Although the boom town that inhabited the area have all but ...

Just months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday.