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 moreYears 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.
Read moreThe 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 moreLouisiana 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.
Read moreUtah 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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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 moreA 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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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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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.
Read moreA 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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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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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 moreA 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.
Read moreTexas sued ExxonMobil for a July 31 explosion at its Baytown chemical plant, whose toxic smoke forced residents to shelter in place and contaminated a creek, bay and the Houston Ship Channel.
Read moreNearly 300 people, most of them Navajo, demand damages in a federal complaint against Weston Solutions, Gold King Mines, the United States and others from the Aug. 5, 2015, spill of toxic water from the Gold King Mine in New Mexico.
Read moreA federal class action claims a wastewater spill from Tyson Foods killed 175,000 fish in Alabama’s Black Warrior River in June and exposed humans to the contamination.
Read moreAfter the Trump administration gave hardrock-mining companies a pass on proving their financial ability to tackle cleanup costs in the event of a spill, the D.C. Circuit shot down a challenge Friday to force the regulatory change.
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Officials began to clean up a massive oil spill Friday that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a California canyon, making it larger — if less devastating — than the state’s last two major oil spills.
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Fed by wells seeping oil since a hurricane toppled an offshore platform in 2004, an oil sheen off the coast of Louisiana has become a Gulf of Mexico landmark. A new government report disputes the driller’s claims the site is leaking an average of just 2.4 gallons per day.
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