The oil wells of Platform Holly, located two miles offshore Goleta, have been successfully plugged and abandoned. Coincidentally, I have observed a dramatic reduction in the amount of tar in the water ...

Tar balls have been washing ashore on Texas beaches, primarily in Cameron, Nueces and Matagorda counties. Authorities are monitoring the situation and investigating the source of the tar balls. Tar ...

If you’ve been walking the beaches this summer, you may have noticed sticky black blobs scattered along the shoreline. These are tar balls, and they’ve been washing up all season long. On my ...