A National Research Council committee opened a second investigation of potential environmental consequences from diluted bitumen (dilbit) spills from pipelines. A National Research Council committee ...

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Oil booms float in a marshy area near a residential area in Mayflower, Ark., where ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29 and spilled a river of Canadian heavy oil, or dilbit. What caused ...

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UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine is among the authors of a new report about accidental spills of diluted bitumen from pipelines. The report was prepared for the National Academies of ...

Inside Climate News won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for this four-part narrative series and six-part follow-up about an oil spill most Americans have never heard of. More than 1 ...

A committee of nationally recognized experts from academia and the private sector will meet for the first time on Wednesday to begin a study that has broad implications for how the United States ...

Oct. 3 — To the Editor: What is the difference between Dilbert and Dilbit? The answer explains the reason why some engineering majors and business majors shared different dinner tables back in college ...

A dark streak of spilled oil in Washington County, Kansas, near the Nebraska border where the Keystone pipeline ruptured last week. The spill in Kansas is now the second-largest spill of tar sands ...

EVERY week, another barge or tanker traverses the narrow straits in the San Juan Islands, bearing a cargo of tar-sands crude oil from Canada headed for refineries. In order to flow through a pipeline ...

The Canadian crude oil that would flow through the Keystone XL pipeline is either the lynchpin of U.S. energy security or the path to certain environmental destruction, depending on whom you talk to.

A correction was made to this article on Dec. 9. A National Research Council committee opened a second investigation of potential environmental consequences from diluted bitumen (dilbit) spills from ...