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US says Exxon must pay $1 million penalty for Montana spill
2015-06-13 02:20:04| Energy - Topix.net
U.S. officials have rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.'s request to reconsider a $1 million penalty imposed against the oil giant over a 63,000-gallon crude spill into Montana's Yellowstone River. Safety regulators said Exxon Mobil failed to adequately heed warnings that its 20-year-old Silvertip Pipeline was at risk from flooding.
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US says Exxon must pay $1 million penalty for Montana spill
2015-06-13 01:53:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
U.S. officials have rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.'s request to reconsider a $1 million penalty imposed against the oil giant over a 63,000-gallon crude spill into Montana's Yellowstone River. Safety regulators said Exxon Mobil failed to adequately heed warnings that its 20-year-old Silvertip Pipeline was at risk from flooding.
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Court Rules Against Greens Endorsing Feds' Handling of Arctic Spill Response Plans
2015-06-12 14:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Houston Chronicle: A federal court on Thursday affirmed the Obama administrations oversight of Shells plans for cleaning up an oil spill should one occur during its work in the Arctic Ocean, delivering a blow to environmentalists who argued the governments scrutiny was superficial. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Interior Department regulators were right to subject Shells oil spill plans to a streamlined analysis, without conducting a broad environmental assessment...
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U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to Shell spill plans in Alaska
2015-06-11 16:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A divided federal appeals court rejected an effort by environmental groups to void a U.S. agency's approval of two oil spill response plans by Royal Dutch Shell Plc related to the company's oil leases in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas on Alaska's Arctic coast. By a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected a claim that the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which is part of the Department of the Interior, acted unlawfully in approving the plans, which...
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Enbridge to compensate for 2010 oil spill in Michigan, US
2015-06-10 13:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
United States has filed a proposed consent decree against Enbridge to resolve claims of federal, state and tribal resource trustees for natural resource damages (NRD) caused by the firms Line 6B pipeline rupture in Michigan in 2010.
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