The swirling black oil and the overpowering smell of asphalt began appearing behind Scott Silva's house on the lower Tangipahoa River the night of Aug. 25, three days after Smitty's Supply Inc.

Contractors on Tuesday worked to try and control an 82-year-old oil well that is leaking into the marshes of southern Plaquemines Parish as response workers set up absorbent booms and deployed other ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. (WVUE) - A photographer says he witnessed what looked like a “geyser” of crude oil erupting from a marsh near the Garden Island Bay production facility, as Coast Guard crews ...

Federal environmental officials received two reports of an oil sheen threatening Lake Pontchartrain — possibly from the Smitty's Supply fire in August — but say they haven't found oily runoff that far ...

The Coast Guard says they have gained control of an oil and gas discharge near Garden Island Bay in Plaquemines Parish. The oil and gas mixture was released near the operator's Garden Island Bay ...