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Officials keep an eye on Inland Waterway cooking oil spill
ALANSON — After Tuesday’s late evening two-vehicle crash, about 5,500 gallons of a mix of used cooking oil and water spilled from a semi-truck — one of the two involved vehicles — and oozed its way toward the Crooked River. The...
Tags: Environmental Cleanup, Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Motorvehicle Accidents, Wildlife
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ExxonMobil faces federal lawsuit over Arkansas oil spill
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the state of Arkansas filed suit against the oil giant ExxonMobil over a March 29 pipeline rupture that spilled 210,000 gallons of oil into a residential neighborhood and waterways in the small town of...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution
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State, feds taking ExxonMobil to court over Arkansas oil spill
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- State and federal prosecutors in Arkansas are seeking civil penalties from ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. over the company's oil spill in a central Arkansas neighborhood. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer...
Tags: Justice System, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, Lawyers
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Clean-up proceeds after truck accident
ALANSON — Cleanup continued today, Thursday, following the late Tuesday two-vehicle accident that led to approximately 12,000 to 13,000 pounds of used cooking oil being spilled near the intersection of U.S. 31 and East Street. According to Audrie...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Motorvehicle Accidents, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Transportation Accidents, Disasters and Accidents
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Three years later, BP oil cleanup ends in some states
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.Three years after a cataclysmic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oil producer BP announced Monday that active oil cleanup had ended in three states hit by the disaster. The gulf, the company said, is getting back to normal, a claim contested by...Tags: National Wildlife Federation, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), BP Plc, Trayvon Martin, Gulf of Mexico
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Cleanup work after BP oil spill end in three states
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Cleanup work has ended in three of the states affected by BP PLC's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday. The London-based oil giant said the Coast Guard has concluded "active cleanup operations"...
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Environmental Issues, Environmental Pollution, BP Plc
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Letters to the Editor: Parking, oil spill, D-day
On June 1, I parked downtown on Orange Avenue at 9 a.m. I checked the parking meter and saw no notation that payment was required 24-7 or on weekends. So, I did not put in any money. I had to work in the courthouse complex that morning and planned to...
Tags: Fluoride, Justice System, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), BP Plc, Lawyers
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Progress slow in cleanup of Gulf Coast oil well disaster
WASHINGTON - Three years after the infamous BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast, lawmakers are still trying to nail down the effectiveness of past, present and future relief efforts backed by billions of dollars. Restoration efforts will receive anywhere...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Dwayne Johnson, Renovation
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Deadline triggers rush of Gulf oil-spill lawsuits, including some from interior Florida
Even as Florida brought home several top-10 finishes in this year's annual contest for the nation's best beaches, the tsunami of lawsuits triggered by BP's beach-trashing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico three years ago continued to gain strength. The...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Litigation, Pam Bondi, Trials
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Oil dispersants must be checked before use in waters, ruling says
Environmentalists won a big victory for marine animals this week, with a court ruling that requires the government to determine whether dispersants used to to break up oil spills are harmful to endangered species before the chemicals are used in federal...
Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Wildlife, Science
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Sens. Warner, Kaine hope to end offshore drilling ban
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine introduced legislation Wednesday that would lift the federal ban on exploration and drilling for natural gas and oil off the coast of Virginia. The moratorium, which lasts through 2017, was put in place by President...Tags: Solar Energy, Credit and Debt, NASA, Mark R. Warner, U.S. House of Representatives
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