Russia Struggles to Clean Up Arctic River Fuel Spill
Russia on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel spill that environmentalists say is the worst such accident in the Arctic, as investigators made their first arrest.
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Homicide Charges Against Indian Factory After Fatal Gas Leak
Indian police on Friday filed charges of culpable homicide, including negligence in handling toxic substances, against a South Korean-owned chemical factory where a gas leak killed 12 people and sickened more than a thousand.
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Chemical Leak Kills 11 in India, Injures 1,000
Poisonous gas leaked from an LG Polymers chemical plant in southern India Thursday, leaving people collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. At least 11 people died and about 1,000 suffered breathing difficulties and other problems.
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Ecuador’s Amazon Tribes Face Water Shortage Over Oil Spill
Indigenous communities in Ecuador’s Amazon region are have filed a lawsuit against the government and oil companies over a massive oil spill polluting local rivers and depriving them of water.
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Report: 10 Years After Worst US Oil Spill, Little Has Changed
A decade after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a lack of safety protocols and inadequate government oversight has not reduced
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High Court Holds Citgo Liable for Oil-Spill Cleanup Costs
After buoying around lower courts for more than 13 years, an admiralty case over a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River was settled Monday by the Supreme Court when the justices ruled Citgo must pay for most of the cleanup costs.
Read moreJudge Orders New Impact Report on Dakota Access Pipeline
Years after the Dakota Access Pipeline fueled outrage across the country, the government has been ordered to prepare a new report on environmental impacts — one opponents warn will be devastating.
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The Fifth Circuit ruled that a district court improperly upheld a $77 million award in favor of a global commodities merchandiser for damages relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, finding that credible evidence of a “sole, superseding cause” of the company’s loss was not investigated.
Read more$130M in BP Spill Money to Help Reconnect Big Swamp to River
Louisiana will get $130 million in BP oil spill money to link its second-largest coastal swamp back up to the Mississippi River, and Alabama will receive funds to add up to 12,000 acres to a wildlife management area.
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Utah sued Gordon Creek, gas and oil exploration, for a pipeline spill that killed more than half an acre of vegetation, in Carbon County Court.
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Chevron Official Tells California Lawmakers Repairs Caused 2019 Oil Spill
A senior Chevron official told California lawmakers on Monday a 2019 incident that spilled over a million gallons of water and oil into a creek bed was likely caused by its attempts to patch up a shuttered well.
Read moreCitgo Asks Justices to Let It Off the Hook for Oil-Spill Cleanup
A Citgo-affiliated company argued Tuesday before the Supreme Court that it should be cleared of liability in the $140 million cleanup of a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River.
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Feds Defeat Lawsuit Over San Francisco Bay Dredging Dispute
A state agency cannot make the federal government dredge two vital San Francisco Bay channels more frequently, a federal judge ruled Monday, despite arguments that less dredging could increase the risk of a container ship accident or oil spill.
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Environmental Prosecutions Drop to Lowest Level in Decades
Prosecutions of environmental crimes dropped to historic lows under the Trump administration last fiscal year and one legal expert believes that could endanger public health.
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A federal judge refused New Jersey-based Silbo Industries’ request to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction a product liability case that claims its subsea piping elbows leaked offshore Louisiana, resulting in “millions of dollars of damage.”
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Oil Spill Risk Cited in Fight Over San Francisco Bay Dredging Plan
A major oil spill in one of the nation’s most economically important waterways could become more likely unless a plan to dredge two San Francisco Bay channels less frequently is reconsidered, lawyers for the state of California and a conservation group argued in court Wednesday.
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Pipeline Spilled at Least 240,000 Gallons — Not 10, as Reported
A 2015 pipeline spill of liquid natural gas in western North Dakota initially reported as just 10 gallons is at least hundreds of thousands of gallons larger and may take another decade to clean up, state health officials said Tuesday.
Read moreSteel Mill Sorry for Spill That Killed Fish, Closed Beaches
A steel company apologized for a spill of cyanide and ammonia that led to a fish kill and prompted the closure of beaches along Lake Michigan.
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