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Workers rushed to contain an oil spill Monday from a coal-carrying ship grounded on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, sending two tugboats to stabilize the vessel so that it would not break apart and further damage the fragile coral beneath....

The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it was responding to a tanker collision in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles offshore Texas, which resulted in an 18,000 gallon oil spill.

A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to pay $507.5 million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, plus 5.9 percent interest running from the 1996 trial judgment, the opinion said.

Rescuers combed a crash site in Kenya on Sunday where oil spilled from a truck caught fire and killed around 100 people in one of the east African nation's worst disasters of recent times.