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No apparent leak after empty oil tanker hits Bay Bridge
L.A. NOWOfficials on Monday afternoon were assessing the damage after an oil tanker collided with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, but initial reports indicated that the vessel did not appear to be leaking oil. The 752-foot Overseas Reymar hit the tower just... -
Problems prompt federal review of Arctic drilling operations
After a series of problems plagued the debut of offshore oil drilling in the U.S. Arctic, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday ordered a high-level, expedited review of oil operations in Alaskan waters aimed at achieving “safe and responsible...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, U.S. Department of the Interior, Environmental Issues, U.S. Coast Guard, Ken Salazar
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ConocoPhillips to Pay $200K for Kuparuk River Pipeline Spills
Channel 2 NewsConocoPhillips has agreed to pay more than $200,000 in state and federal fines to settle environmental claims related to two oil spills from corroded pipelines at its Kuparuk River oil field in 2006 and 2007, regulatory agencies said Monday. The...Tags: BP Plc, Water Pollution, Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Environmental Politics
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Arctic shipping is disaster waiting to happen, safety group warns
Ferrying a load of soybeans from Seattle to China in 2004, the engine of Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu lost power and the vessel broke in half on rocks off Unalaska Island in the middle of the Alaskan archipelago. A ferocious Bering Sea storm...
Tags: Water Pollution, Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution
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Feds say Exxon's delayed response made Yellowstone River oil spill worse
BILLINGS, Mont. - Federal investigators say Exxon Mobil Corp.'s delayed response to a pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made the spill far worse than it otherwise would have been. Department of Transportation investigators say the...Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Max Baucus
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BP shut out of U.S. contracts: Feds cite deadly blast, poor response
BP, which has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with the nation's worst offshore oil spill, was suspended from new government contracts on Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced. In suspending the company, the...
Tags: Trials, Criminals, Emergency Incidents, Criminal Laws, Environmental Issues
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BP is not a criminal -- but its executives might be
The Justice Department has entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with the giant oil company BP, in connection with the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history....Tags: Arthur Andersen, U.S. Senate, U.S. Department of Justice, Criminals, Trials
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Enbridge Oil Spill Still A Concern To Residents
FOX 17 NewsEnbridge says it has paid the federal government's 3.7 million dollar fine in full for the 2010 spill that dumped nearly a million gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River in 2010. The fine was handed out by the Pipeline and Hazardous...Tags: Business, Sales, Fines, Property, Punishment
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Feds: Neglect, inaction caused Enbridge Kalamazoo River oil spill
DETROIT (AP) — A Canadian company's failure to deal adequately with cracks in an oil pipeline and its slow response to a 2010 rupture in southwestern Michigan likely caused the most expensive onshore oil spill in U.S. history, the National...
Tags: Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Greenpeace scales Russian oil platform to protest Arctic drilling
World NowGreenpeace activists scaled a frigid Russian oil platform on Friday to draw attention to the possible dangers of drilling in the Arctic, warning a spill could sully nature reserves long before crews are able to clean it up.... -
BP to Pay Record $4.5B Penalty in Gulf Oil Spill
CNNNEW YORK --- BP will plead guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and agreed to pay $4.5 billion in government penalties, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday....Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Criminals, Water Pollution, Judges, Environmental Issues
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A fair settlement
The damage done by BP's oil spill in 2010 was a devasting blow to the economy and tragically cost 11 oil rig workers their lives. The company has so far set aside $42 billion to pay fines and damages resulting from the spill, and that amount may yet...Tags: BP Plc, Petroleum Industry, Fines, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Punishment
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