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BP spill ruled smaller than feared
2015-01-16 03:13:47| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
BP faces a fine of up to $13.7bn (9bn) after a US judge ruled that the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was smaller than initially feared.
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EPA Proposal strengthens oil spill preparedness and response.
2015-01-15 14:31:12| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
To address issues raised by various parties during 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, U.S. EPA proposes amending requirements under National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP). Proposed Subpart J revisions deal with product toxicity and efficacy test methodologies, toxicity and efficacy criteria, human health and safety information requirements, area planning requirements for chemical and biological agent use authorization, and dispersant monitoring requirements.
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EPA, ADEC Continue Diesel Spill Cleanup In Creek After Company Fails To Complete Contamination Removal
2015-01-14 05:40:28| oilandgasonline Home Page
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation are mobilized to remove 4,400 gallons of low-sulfur diesel from a creek that flows into the Tiekel River after an oil tanker truck slid off the Richardson Highway 48 miles northeast of Valdez, Alaska on Dec. 9 and spilled the fuel it was transporting.
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BP, Anadarko fail to win new review of Gulf spill fines
2015-01-10 05:03:44| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp narrowly failed to persuade a U.S appeals court to reconsider its 2014 ruling that they could face civil fines under federal pollution laws over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. By a 7-6 vote, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a three-judge panel's decision to uphold a 2012 ruling from U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans, in which he said the companies could face Clean Water Act penalties.
Executives plead not guilty over West Virginia chemical spill: media
2015-01-09 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thursday to charges stemming from a chemical spill that fouled drinking water for about 300,000 West Virginians, media reported. Prosecutors in December accused Freedom Industries Inc, its former president Gary Southern and other officers of negligence and fraud after the discharge of a chemical pollutant into the Elk River near Charleston a year ago. The leak of a chemical foam used to wash coal breached a containment area one mile (1.6 km) upstream of a water treatment and distribution plant...
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