US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday establishing an independent commission to investigate offshore drilling and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . The National...
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DC-based consumer advocacy organization Food and Water Watch (FWW) filed suit in a US district court Monday against the US Department of Interior (DOI) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) for an injunction...
JURIST Guest Columnist Itzchak Kornfeld of the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem says the blowout at BP's Deepwater Horizon Well in the Gulf of Mexico will lead to a plethora of legal claims... The tragic blowout...
France oil company charged with corruption in Iraq oil-for-food scandal
A Paris judge has charged French oil company Total with bribery and complicity in connection with a scandal involving the UN's Iraq Oil-for-Food program , the company's lawyer confirmed Tuesday. Total announced the...
France appeals court upholds oil company liability for 1999 spill
The Paris Appellate Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's 2008 decision finding French oil company Total and several other defendants criminally liable for an oil spill that occurred of the coast of...
Ninth Circuit rules Exxon Mobil owes interest on oil spill verdict
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that Exxon Mobil owes interest on the more than $500 million in punitive damages awarded against it following the 1989 Exxon Valdez...
In re: The Exxon Valdez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, June 15, 2009 [holding that Exxon Mobil owes interest on the more than $500 million in punitive damages awarded against it following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil...
A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated Friday the Bush-era program for leasing of land for oil and gas drilling on the US Outer Continental...
Energy company sentenced for violating US ocean dumping laws
Energy company Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals (KMBT) was sentenced Wednesday for its improper disposal of potash (potassium chloride) in violation of the Ocean Dumping Act . In 2003, a KMBT employee dumped 160 metric tons of potash...
US Supreme Court declines to consider interest owed on Exxon oil spill damages
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Exxon Mobil owes interest on a punitive damages award entered against it for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...