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Arkansas attorney general concerned says residents still sick after ExxonMobil oil spill

Posted: May 12, 2013 Environmental

Mayflower, Ark., residents, including a number of children, are continuing to experience adverse health effects after ExxonMobil’s’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured, Dustin McDaniel, the state’s Attorney General said Tuesday. ExxonMobil’s pipeline breached on March 29, spilling about 5,000 barrels of highly

Tests confirm Exxon’s Arkansas oil spill created highly toxic air pollution

Posted: May 8, 2013 Environmental

High levels of 30 toxic chemicals were present in air samples taken in Mayflower, Ark., the day after a breach in ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline allowed an estimated 5,000 barrels of chemically treated tar sands oil to flood a suburban neighborhood.

ExxonMobil pipeline spills oil again, one month and 200 miles from Arkansas spill

Posted: May 3, 2013 Environmental

One month after ExxonMobil’s 70-year-old Pegasus pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of oil in the town of Mayflower, Ark., another breach in the same pipeline created an oil spill on a residential yard in Ripley County, Missouri.

John Deere Recalls Gator Utility Vehicles After Four Reported Fires

Posted: February 15, 2013 Recalls

John Deere, the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the world, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a recall of around 4,700 Gator Utility Vehicles due to leakage in the oil filter that can poses a fire

U.S. Justice Department ready for BP oil spill trial, Attorney General says

Posted: February 29, 2012 Environmental

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that the Justice Department is ready to go to trial next week against BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill that left vast sections of the

Plaintiffs lawyers prepared for BP oil spill trial set to begin in New Orleans

Posted: February 24, 2012 Environmental

Beasley Allen lawyer Rhon Jones, who is serving on the plaintiffs steering committee for the BP oil spill litigation, told the Troy Messenger that he feels confident about the case, which is set to begin trial in U.S. District Court

BP, Anadarko will pay civil penalties for oil spill, judge rules

Posted: February 23, 2012 Environmental

BP and minority partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. will have to pay civil penalties for violations of the Clean Water Act that led to the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who is presiding over BP

Gulf states are one step closer to acquiring BP oil-spill fines

Posted: February 23, 2012 Environmental

Legislators from the Gulf States are one step closer to making sure billions of dollars in oil-spill fine money collected from BP’s violations of the Clean Water Act will go to the Gulf Coast states rather than into the federal

BP settles oil-spill dispute with drilling fluid supplier

Posted: February 20, 2012 Environmental

BP and supplier M-I Swaco, a Houston-based drilling mud supplier, agreed Friday to settle all claims with each other over the Deepwater Horizon explosion that led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Lawmakers race to ensure BP oil spill fine money goes to Gulf States

Posted: February 9, 2012 Environmental

Congressional representatives and municipal officials from the Gulf Coast are in Washington pushing for legislation that would direct billions of dollars in BP oil-spill fine money to the states harmed by the 2010 spill before time runs out.