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NY City sues BP over Deepwater Horizon spill: Comp...
2013-04-27 01:54:20| Energy - Topix.net
New York City said on Friday it sued BP Plc for more than $39 million of losses it claims beneficiaries of the city's pension funds sustained due to BP's "misconduct and fraudulent behavior" linked to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Arkansas Oil Spill Damage Assessment: If Not the Feds, then Who?
2013-04-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Federal agencies have so far not decided whether to undertake an assessment of the ecological harm caused by ExxonMobil's pipeline break, which spewed a tarry oil slick into yards, streets and creeks in a central Arkansas town. For now, they're leaving it to state agencies to decide whether and how to quantify and counteract the environmental damage. The rupture in the Pegasus pipeline on March 29 dumped up to an estimated 294,000 gallons of Canadian heavy crude in Mayflower, Ark.including in...
Arkansas AG on Why He's Taking Exxon Spill Probe Into His Own Hands
2013-04-24 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Since launching an investigation into the Mayflower, Ark. oil spill on April 2, state Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has pushed hard to resolve unanswered questions about the pipeline accident. McDaniel, a Democrat in his second term as attorney general, caused a stir on April 3 when he insisted on touring the site of the spill with his staff instead of in a bus tour organized by ExxonMobil, the company responsible for the 210,000-gallon pipeline rupture. He drew attention again when he was among...
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Exxon apologizes for Arkansas oil spill
2013-04-22 16:15:30| Chemicals - Topix.net
Exxon Mobil issued an apology to Mayflower, Ark., residents affected by an oil spill in March from the Pegasus pipeline.
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Ark. Oil Spill Probe Falls to Understaffed Agency With Close Industry Ties
2013-04-22 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Just a day after roughly one million gallons of heavy Canadian crude [3] oil spilled into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it was launching a formal investigation into the incident. It quickly set up shop in a local hotel and conducted dozens of interviews with pipeline workers, local officials and residents. It did field and laboratory analysis of the ruptured pipeline in its own labs. And its investigators pored over the responsible companys...
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