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Tesoro is cleared to buy BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations
Tesoro Corp. won federal and state clearance for its purchase of BP's Carson refinery, Arco stations and other assets for $2.4 billion, an acquisition that would further concentrate the state's fuel-making capacity into only two players — Tesoro and...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Pollution, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Consumers
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Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry
The seafood is safe to eat and the Gulf of Mexico tourism industry is recovering three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the waters off Louisiana. But despite that BP-sponsored...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Louisiana State University, Oil Spills, Science and Technology, Mexico
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Arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of annual pipeline losses
The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spill were particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up an industrial mess in a peaceful burg....
Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Crime, Law and Justice, Enbridge Incorporated, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Stock spotlight: Occidental Petroleum seeks stability at the top
The nation's fourth biggest oil company, Occidental Petroleum Corp., is primarily involved in oil and natural gas exploration and production. It is also a major manufacturer of oil-related chemicals. The Westwood company said its domestic production...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Occidental Petroleum Corp., CEO Pay
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UC expert questions BP management's role in gulf oil spill
An expert witness for those suing BP over the nation’s worst environmental disaster criticized the company’s investigation of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the civil trial entered its second day. UC Berkeley engineering professor...
Tags: Government, Trials, Politics, Environmental Pollution, Witnesses
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Drilling company enters guilty plea in Gulf oil spill
Transocean Deepwater Inc., an oil drilling company, formally pleaded guilty on Thursday to a misdemeanor charge and will pay $400 million in criminal penalties, the latest action in the 2010 Gulf oil spill. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in New...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Trials, U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice, Environmental Pollution
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BP says gulf states are seeking more than $34 billion in claims
Oil giant BPÂ said it is confronting more than $34 billion in damage claims related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and the nation's biggest offshore oil spill. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida presented their claims...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, BP Plc, Emergency Incidents, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico
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Assistant Atty. Gen. Lanny Breuer to exit amid criticism, praise
WASHINGTON — Assistant U.S. Atty. Gen. Lanny A. Breuer, who made his mark ramping up the prosecution of white-collar crime and overseeing the government’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill investigation, announced he is soon leaving his post as one...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Political Corruption, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Mexico
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BP pleads guilty to manslaughter in 2010 gulf oil spill
A federal judge in New Orleans accepted an agreement for BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record fine in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which ranks as one of the nation’s worst environmental...
Tags: Trials, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Pollution, Crime, Law and Justice, Court Preliminary
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Oil spills after two barges strike Mississippi River bridge
Oil spilled into the Mississippi River after two oil barges hit a bridge near Vicksburg, Miss., early Sunday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. The barges, laden with crude oil, were being pulled by the tow boat Nature's Way Endeavor when they...
Tags: Trials, National Transportation Safety Board, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar leaving Obama administration
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that he plans to step down and return to Colorado, leaving another opening in President Obama’s Cabinet. “Colorado is and will always be my home. I look forward to...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Barack Obama, Energy Resources, Ken Salazar
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3 from BP plead not guilty in connection with gulf oil disaster
Two BP employees and a former executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a variety of charges, including manslaughter and concealing information from Congress, in connection with the 2010 explosion of the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of...
Tags: Trials, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System
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