Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston | 10.13.2016
PORT ISABEL, Texas — Response workers were able to recover more than 2,000 gallons of diesel through the night and into Thursday morning in the Port Isabel Channel, after a barge allided with a dock Tuesday....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Lehmann | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston | 08.06.2013
Coast Guard members are working with Miller Environmental Services and Texas General Land Office specialists to clean up naturally occurring tar balls discovered on 20-mile stretch of land from Padre Island National Seashore to the beaches of Port Aransas, Tuesday....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick | U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston | 05.01.2013
Federal, state and local agencies and responders are working Wednesday to mitigate possible impact from an oil platform that has a small leak of water coming from a large tank that also contains crude oil and is located about five miles off Matagorda Island, Texas....
