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Report fails to settle concerns over oil spill risk to Ogallala Aquifer
The question of how an oil spill from the proposed Keystone XL pipeline might affect the Ogallala aquifer was raised again this month, in a report the U.S. State Department will use to help it decide whether to approve or reject the controversial project....Tags: Geology, Kinder Morgan Incorporated, Environmental Politics, Energy Resources, Science
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Trial set to open for Gulf oil spill litigation
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly three years after a deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a high-stakes trial for the raft of litigation spawned by...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Court Preliminary, Litigation, Business
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Judge OKs $4B BP oil spill criminal settlement
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement for BP PLC to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties for the company's role in the 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Disasters and Accidents, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Court Preliminary, Environmental Pollution
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'Blues' for deep blue sea
As a young boy, when Wyland saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, he felt something shift within him. Moments later, two gray whales peeked out from the surface of the water. A lifelong connection was formed. "I saw two gray whales spouting...
Tags: Common, Music, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Entertainment, Environmental Pollution
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ConocoPhillips to Pay $200K for Kuparuk River Pipeline Spills
Channel 2 NewsConocoPhillips has agreed to pay more than $200,000 in state and federal fines to settle environmental claims related to two oil spills from corroded pipelines at its Kuparuk River oil field in 2006 and 2007, regulatory agencies said Monday. The...Tags: Punishment, Environmental Politics, Fines, ConocoPhillips, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Feds say Exxon's delayed response made Yellowstone River oil spill worse
BILLINGS, Mont. - Federal investigators say Exxon Mobil Corp.'s delayed response to a pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made the spill far worse than it otherwise would have been. Department of Transportation investigators say the...Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Max Baucus
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Enbridge Oil Spill Still A Concern To Residents
FOX 17 NewsEnbridge says it has paid the federal government's 3.7 million dollar fine in full for the 2010 spill that dumped nearly a million gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River in 2010. The fine was handed out by the Pipeline and Hazardous...Tags: Sales, Punishment, Fines, Property, Business
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Feds: Neglect, inaction caused Enbridge Kalamazoo River oil spill
DETROIT (AP) — A Canadian company's failure to deal adequately with cracks in an oil pipeline and its slow response to a 2010 rupture in southwestern Michigan likely caused the most expensive onshore oil spill in U.S. history, the National...
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, U.S. Department of Transportation, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Transportation Industry
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BP is not a criminal -- but its executives might be
The Justice Department has entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with the giant oil company BP, in connection with the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the worst oil spill in American history....
Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Arthur Andersen, Gulf of Mexico, Court Preliminary, U.S. House of Representatives
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BP to Pay Record $4.5B Penalty in Gulf Oil Spill
CNNNEW YORK --- BP will plead guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and agreed to pay $4.5 billion in government penalties, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday....Tags: Emergency Incidents, CNN (tv network), U.S. Coast Guard, Court Preliminary, Explosions
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A fair settlement
The damage done by BP's oil spill in 2010 was a devasting blow to the economy and tragically cost 11 oil rig workers their lives. The company has so far set aside $42 billion to pay fines and damages resulting from the spill, and that amount may yet...Tags: Punishment, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Fines, BP Plc, Petroleum Industry
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2 missing, 4 badly burned in Gulf platform fire
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard was searching Friday for two workers missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Energy Resources, Transportation Accidents, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Gulf of Mexico
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