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A federal judge on Tuesday permitted two environmental groups to sue a Texas refinery owned by ExxonMobil Corp. for failing to enforce federal environmental standards. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas filed the lawsuit [Reuters...

The Bush administration abandoned plans to impose Clean Air Act (CAA) regulations on power plants and other stationary pollution sources after opposition from the oil industry, according to a report released Friday by the...

In re: The Exxon Valdez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 22, 2006 [ruling reducing by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday reduced by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused a major Alaska oil spill [Anchorage...

After re-examining the costs of cleaning up remaining oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill , the US Justice Department and the state of Alaska said Thursday that they would use a "reopener" provision in...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the US Justice Department announced on Tuesday that ExxonMobil will spend an estimated $571 million to settle a lawsuit with the federal government and three states over alleged violations of...

Leading Friday's states brief, a North Carolina Supreme Court ruling today expanded the number of civil penalties which properly belong to school districts under the state constitution . The court upheld most of a 2003 court of...

Exxon Mobil v. Saudi Basic Industries, Supreme Court of the United States, March 30, 2005 [ruling that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which prevents lower federal courts from sitting in direct review of state court decisions, is confined to cases brought by...