The State Lands Commission hosts a field trip to the piers on Haskell’s Beach in Goleta Tuesday. The structures will be removed as part of a larger oil infrastructure decommissioning project. (Carolyn ...

An aerial view of the two piers on Haskell’s Beach in Goleta. The piers and other oil industry infrastructure will be removed in a six-month project starting Monday. (California State Lands Commission ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. GOLETA, CA – The State Lands Commission, in collaboration with the City of Goleta, has removed the last two oil pier and ...

ASTORIA, Ore. (KOIN) — The Coast Guard and local crews are 6 days into cleaning up an oil sheen on the Columbia River near Astoria. A containment boom is now in place around the affected area, but it ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Crews are investigating an oil spill near the Folly Beach Pier. Officials with the United States Coast Guard said three to four gallons of organic hydraulic oil was found ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has, at least for now, turned down a permit application for repairs to a Superior harbor pier that's planned for a possible oil terminal. Superior-based ...