Science Says What? is a monthly column written by Great Lakes now contributor Sharon Oosthoek exploring what science can tell us about what’s happening beneath and above the waves of our beloved Great ...

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 ...

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.

The spill in Kansas is now the second-largest spill of tar sands crude on U.S. soil. And scientists say this stuff comes with major complications for containing and cleaning it. Each day that passes, ...

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 ...

Oil sands crude does not pose an increased risk compared with other crude oils when transported via pipeline, said a committee of scientists reporting to the US Department of Transportation. Oil sands ...

A Michigan scientist warns that dilbit can seem to disappear, only to turn up later. This mystery may have to do with how the oil binds to other particles in water. Canadian company TC Energy has ...

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 ...

Southern Pacific Resources Corp. said rail shipments have begun of diluted bitumen (dilbit) produced at its STP-McKay thermal oil sands project in Alberta to a terminal in Mississippi as production at ...