The US Coast Guard on Wednesday resumed its investigatory hearings into a collision between a barge and a tanker which caused the spilling of approximately 400,000 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River on...
Search Results for: oil spill
Supreme Court rules in child rape, Sixth Amendment, Exxon damages cases
The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Wednesday, including Exxon v. Baker , in which the Court ruled 5-3 to reduce a punitive damages award to be paid by...
Federal appeals court rules BP plea bargain in blast case violated rights of victims
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the plea agreement made by BP following a 2005 explosion at a Texas City refinery must be sent back to the US district court in...
San Francisco Bay oil spill ship pilot faces new felony charges
Federal prosecutors filed felony charges Tuesday against Capt. John Joseph Cota, the California maritime pilot accused in the November 2007 spill of approximately 58,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil in the San Francisco Bay. Cota,...
Ship pilot faces environmental charges in San Francisco Bay oil spill
The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California filed charges on Monday against San Francisco Bay maritime pilot John Joseph Cota for allegedly causing the negligent discharge of approximately 58,000 gallons...
Clean Water Act does not preclude punitive damages under common law
Howard A. Learner : "Sixteen environmental and Alaskan conservation organizations, represented by public interest attorneys from the Environmental Law & Policy Center, filed an amicus curiae brief before the U.S. Supreme...
The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard oral arguments in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker 07-219, where the Court considered the punitive damages to be paid by Exxon Mobil...
Federal judge dismisses Spain claim over 2002 tanker oil spill
US District Judge Laura Swain Wednesday dismissed Spanish damage claims against the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a non-profit organization that inspects and certifies ships, in connection with a major 2002 oil spill. Spain had filed suit...
Alaskan state officials said Wednesday that they are presently building a civil case against oil giant BP for two oil spills in Prudhoe Bay in March and August of 2006. The announcement by the environmental division of...