In Israel, Mayo Provides Miracle for Endangered Turtles
Only a handful of sea turtles survived after a disastrous oil spill blackened most of Israel’s shoreline and reached beaches of neighboring Lebanon.
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Russian Mining Giant Handed $2B Fine Over Fuel Spill
Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel on Friday was fined nearly $2 billion after one of its subsidiaries became the source of a giant fuel spill in Russia’s Arctic last year.
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Navajo Nation, New Mexico Reach Settlements Over Mine Spill
The Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico have reached multimillion-dollar settlements with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three Western states being fouled with a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Read moreArsenic Cleanup
Mine operator Sterling Centrecorp must pay $32 million to cover the government’s cleanup costs at a gold mine in the Sierra Nevada mountains which contaminated local groundwater with dangerous levels of arsenic, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
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EU Court OKs French Aid for Fishing Industry After 1999 Oil Spill
France did not break the law by giving tax relief to fishing companies after a massive oil spill in the Bay of Biscay in 1999, the EU’s top court ruled Thursday.
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14 Dolphins Die in Mauritius Near Japanese Ship’s Oil Spill
At least 14 dead dolphins have washed up on the coast of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, where a Japanese ship ran aground last month and spilled more than 1,000 tons of fuel, environmental groups and experts said Wednesday.
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Long-Term Threat to Mauritius Ecology After Spill: Japan Experts
The major oil spill caused by a Japanese ship that ran aground in Mauritius may pose a long-term threat to the region’s ecology, including to the Indian Ocean island’s delicate mangroves, Japanese experts said Tuesday.
Read moreOil Spill Containment
Marine contractor Couvillion is entitled to immunity in a suit brought against it by Taylor Energy, which asked a federal court in Louisiana to declare that the contractor did not have the authority to assist in the containment of an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Taylor Energy now exists only to address the spill at its MC-20 platform, which collapsed during Hurricane Ivan.
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Offshore Refueling Deepens Fears for S. Africa’s Penguin Haven
Generators hum loudly in the background as a tour boat bobs past a towering vessel filled with ship fuel, anchored in Algoa Bay, a stone’s throw away from the world’s largest breeding colony of African penguins.
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Mauritius Braces to Halt New Oil Spill as Tanker Breaks Up
Salvage crews raced against time Monday to prevent a second disastrous oil spill off the picture-perfect coastline of Mauritius, with a damaged tanker carrying thousands of tons of fuel at risk of splitting apart.
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Mauritius Races to Contain Oil Spill, Protect Coastline
Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius were working around the clock Sunday, trying to reduce the damage to the Indian Ocean island from an oil spill after a ship ran aground on a coral reef.
Read morePipeline Spill
The Ninth Circuit dismissed claims brought by an offshore oil platform against Plains Pipeline L.P. and its affiliated companies arising from a rupture of Plains’ pipeline and oil spill, finding a customer harmed by the interruption of service can’t sue under the Oil Pollution Act.
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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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