Environmental Articles
Exxon Mobil must pay NH $236 million for widespread groundwater contamination
The longest state trial in New Hampshire history ended Tuesday with a jury verdict against Exxon Mobil Corp. for its role in polluting groundwater with MTBE, a gasoline additive. The jury ordered the oil giant to pay the state $236
BP calls witnesses to testify in its defense as oil spill trial enters 7th week
Individuals, businesses, and government bodies from local to federal harmed by BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill say the oil giant acted with gross negligence in the events leading to the April 2010 disaster, which killed 11 workers and allowed more
Exxon’s oil spill cleanup making Arkansas wetlands worse, group charges
Exxon Mobil’s methods of cleaning up the oil spill unleashed on an Arkansas neighborhood by its ruptured Pegasus pipeline March 29 could be doing more harm than good, says an environmental group that opposes the shipment of Canadian tar sands
Die off, disease, mutation in wake of BP oil spill concern scientists
Three years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster unleashed the nation’s worst oil spill, a group of University of South Florida scientists have found evidence of a massive die-off at the base of the Gulf of Mexico’s food chain – a
Exxon says it will pay costs of cleaning up Arkansas oil spill
Exxon Mobil officials say that the company will assume all of the costs stemming from the cleanup of the oil spill that originated from a ruptured pipeline in Arkansas last week. The spill occurred on Friday, March 30, when a
Three Alabamians charged with defrauding BP oil spill fund
Three Alabama residents are facing federal charges for allegedly submitting fraudulent claims to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF), which was established to compensate the victims of BP’s enormous 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
ExxonMobil pipeline breach drenches Arkansas community in oil
As of Monday afternoon, Exxon Mobil had yet to start excavating the area where a breach in its Pegasus pipeline has been releasing thousands of barrels of Canadian crude oil into the environment, meaning a fix could be days away.
BP trial: Transocean comes under fire over poor maintenance record
A maintenance director for Transocean, the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon rig and leased it to BP for exploratory drilling, testified in court Tuesday that the rig was “not flawless” at the time it exploded and sank in the
Halliburton faces court sanctions for withholding well cement samples
BP contractor Halliburton will likely face sanctions for its refusal to turn over samples of the cement it used to seal the doomed Macondo well, which erupted in a series of deadly explosions on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers
Wikipedia editors accuse BP of rewriting environmental record on encyclopedic website
Editors of the popular information website Wikipedia, which bills itself as “The Free Encyclopedia,” are accusing oil giant BP PLC of rewriting nearly half the content on pages about the company, particularly about BP’s environmental record. There are policies in
