Harbor Patrol officers found nearly 8,000 pounds worth of marijuana floating off the coast of Orange County, Calif., on Sunday, according to reports. ...
AP | Posted 04.30.2012
PERDIDO BEACH, Ala. -- The Coast Guard says one of its crews rescued five adults and a 13-year-old boy from the water after their 32-foot vessel sank ...
AP | Posted 04.23.2012
HONOLULU — Ten members of a Taiwanese fishing ship were rescued in the Pacific after being forced to abandon the burning vessel before it sank, ...
Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 04.19.2012
We need to decide whether it is appropriate to lease sensitive areas of the ocean for oil and gas development. To make smart decisions, though, we need solid scientific information -- and that information does not exist for most "frontier" areas.
AP | Posted 04.19.2012
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released...
Posted 04.09.2012
Tressell and his two friends are lucky to be alive, after spending more than a week lost at sea on a capsized fishing boat on "I Survived" (Sun., 9 p....
AP | MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 04.10.2012
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA -- A U.S. Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into a Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since last year's tsunami, s...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 05.11.2012
SEATTLE — The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday for four men missing from a fishing trawler off the Washington coast, saying it's unl...
AP | MELISSA NELSON | Posted 04.29.2012
MOBILE, Ala. — As divers searched the muddy bottom of Alabama's Mobile Bay, a salvage ship was dispatched Wednesday to the sunken wreckage of a ...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.18.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The owner...
The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 01.13.2012
UPDATE: 9:30 AM, Jan. 13 -- A vigil was held for Kent Morton Thursday night, according to Fox Detroit. The search is planned to resume Friday morn...
AP | Posted 12.27.2011
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. Coast Guard says it has suspended a search for a 30-year-old female bartender who worked aboard a cruise ship and ju...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.21.2011
BALTIMORE -- Cmdr. William Lane climbs down a steep ladder deep within the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear. Stepping over a pipe with paint blistered ...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 01.08.2012
NEW ORLEANS — BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that winds up on shores of the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes...
AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 12.12.2011
-- Oil rig operator Transocean Ltd. says no oil is leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded last year. Oil sheens were r...
AP | JENNIFER KAY and SUZETTE LABOY | Posted 12.10.2011
MARATHON, Fla. — Four hours into a family fishing trip, rough waves flipped a 22-foot boat off the Florida Keys, tossing eight people overboard....
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.06.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Coal is a...
AP | By BECKY BOHRER | Posted 12.04.2011
JUNEAU, Alaska -- U.S. Sen. Mark Begich on Tuesday called on the Coast Guard to sink a stateless, rat-infested vessel accused of illegal fishing. In ...
AP | Posted 11.28.2011
NEW ORLEANS -- The Coast Guard says a series of "sheen sightings" have been reported in the area where the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in ...
AP | By DAN JOLING | Posted 11.22.2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Calmer weather allowed a tugboat to reattach a tow line Wednesday to a fuel barge that had that broken loose off Alaska's west co...
AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 11.21.2011
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A barge carrying tens of thousands of gallons of fuel has broken loose from a tugboat in rough seas off Alaska's west coast ...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 11.14.2011
Today, the Joint Investigation Team issued its final report on it's investigation of BP's Macondo Well Blowout and subsequent oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010.
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 10.21.2011
On April 25, 2010, BP assured the Gulf Coast that a disaster wasn't unfolding. Five days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon, a BP-leased rig in the Gul...
Posted 10.02.2011
The U.S. coastguard intercepted a makeshift submarine carrying an estimated $180M of cocaine. The smugglers pulled the plug on the sub, but author...
AP | By KATHY MATHESON | Posted 10.02.2011
PHILADELPHIA -- A tug operator consumed by a family emergency pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter for a fatal crash with a duck boat fil...
MSNBC | Marian Smith | Posted 05.21.2012