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Dane County gives up on requiring oil spill cleanup fund
2015-09-11 08:22:08| Energy - Topix.net
Dane County officials have given up on trying to force Enbridge Energy to provide stronger financial assurances for a proper cleanup of a spill from the company's crude oil pipeline across Wisconsin. Environmentalists want Dane County to require Canada-based Enbridge to establish a $25 million cleanup trust fund in case of a spill of tar sands oil.
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Dane County gives up on requiring oil spill cleanup fund
2015-09-10 15:49:06| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Dane County officials have given up on trying to force Enbridge Energy to provide stronger financial assurances for a proper cleanup of a spill from the company's crude oil pipeline across Wisconsin. Environmentalists want Dane County to require Canada-based Enbridge to establish a $25 million cleanup trust fund in case of a spill of tar sands oil.
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Appeals court upholds class action status in oil spill suit
2015-09-09 20:57:52| Energy - Topix.net
" A federal appeals court says litigation alleging that BP misled investors about the rate of oil flowing after an offshore oil rig explosion in 2010 can proceed as a class action lawsuit. Tuesday's 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that the lawsuit, led by pension funds in New York and Ohio, can continue on behalf of all purchasers of certain types of BP securities during a 33-day period after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Exxon Valdez Spill Had Big Impact on Fish Population, Study Says
2015-09-09 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Federal scientists may have found a link between the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and a decline of herring and pink salmon populations in Prince William Sound. In a study published Tuesday in the online journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) found that embryonic salmon and herring exposed to even very low levels of crude oil can develop heart defects. Herring and pink salmon juveniles that were exposed to crude oil as embryos grew...
Burn patient stable after sulfuric acid spill at Orange paper mill
2015-09-09 00:24:07| Paper - Topix.net
A man delivering sulfuric acid at the Temple-Inland paper mill in Orange is in stable condition after suffering burns on 40 percent of his body.Orange Fire Captain Payton Smith said the burn patient, who authorities only identified as a man believed to be in his late 20s, was sent to the University of Texas Medical Branch burn center in Galveston ... (more)
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