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Oil Spill

Hess Corp. will pay the United States and Louisiana $8.7 million to settle a complaint over a June 2005 oil spill from an offshore drilling platform that killed hundreds of endangered brown pelicans and other ocean life.

NEW ORLEANS — Hess Corp. will pay the United States and Louisiana $8.7 million to settle a complaint over a June 2005 oil spill from an offshore drilling platform that killed hundreds of endangered brown pelicans and other ocean life.

Categories: Environment

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