With lawsuits and cleanup costs mounting in the Orange County oil spill, some fear the pipeline's owner may not have the resources or desire to pay the costs.

The oil spill off the coast of Orange County is a slow-moving disaster that is still hard for many residents to detect with the naked eye. CNN values your feedback 1.

"The contaminated mud, when it gets stirred up again it can become toxic to wildlife." Outraged resident shares footage of beautiful harbor suffocated by major oil spill: 'Irreparable damage' first ...

The clean up and investigation continues after a major oil spill off California's coast. In a place where most marshes have been lost, it damaged a restored wetland that's a refuge for shorebirds.

A broken pipeline has led to an estimated 126,000 gallons of oil leaked into the Pacific Ocean waters near Orange County, prompting Southern California officials to race to contain the damage in ...

PHOTOS: Huntington Beach Oil Spill Causes Massive Ecologic Damage On land, there was a race to find animals harmed by the oil and to keep the spill from harming any more sensitive marshland.

How is the Gulf Coast coping with the effects of the massive 2010 BP oil spill five years later? Judy Woodruff talks to John Young, president of Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish, and Mark ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Oct 3 (Reuters) - A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local officials called ...

President Obama has called the BP oil spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,” and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the ...

Then the oil spill soiled more than 1,100 miles (1,700 kilometers) of shoreline, much of it marsh in southeastern Louisiana's Barataria Bay. 5:10 Some wetlands were so plastered with oil that ...

Environmental experts said the oil spill could have been more damaging under different circumstances: The section into which the diesel flowed is somewhat enclosed on three sides, keeping the ...

The oil spill that left a smear of crude approximately 11 miles long in the Gulf of Mexico is one of more than 2,000 reports of pollution and contamination in the waterways off the coast of ...