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Toxic Impact of Hurricane Harvey Deeper than Public Told
Mar 26 2018 // A toxic onslaught from the nation’s petrochemical hub was largely overshadowed by the record-shattering deluge of Hurricane Harvey as residents and first responders struggled to save lives and property. More than a...
Indiana Governor Signs Bill Allowing Sale of CBD Oil
Mar 23 2018 // Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed a bill that allows for the widespread sale of a cannabis-derived oil. Cannabidiol, commonly referred to as CBD, is derived from marijuana and hemp and is believed to have therapeutic...
Big Oil to Face Questions on Climate Change as Cities’ Abatement Lawsuit Proceeds
Mar 21 2018 // Five of the world’s biggest energy producers will be questioned by a federal judge on Wednesday about climate change science, part of a lawsuit that accuses the companies of misleading the public for years about...
Papua New Guinea Faces Long Road to Recovery After Quake; Death Toll Passes 100
Mar 8 2018 // Papua New Guinea faces a long road to recovery after the powerful earthquake that hit the nation’s rugged highlands more than 10 days ago, with the death toll now believed to have climbed to more than 100, its leader...
Company Wants Appeals Court to Lift Halt in Louisiana Oil Pipeline Work
Mar 5 2018 // A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order that temporarily halts pipeline construction work in a swamp. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC asked the 5th...
State Auto Sells Rockhill’s General Liability, Gas Distribution Business to K2 Insurance
Mar 2 2018 // State Auto Insurance is continuing its exit from the specialty insurance business, selling off more of the business of its excess and surplus lines subsidiary, Rockhill Insurance Group. The buyer this time is specialty...
Oil, Gas Regulator Modifies Oklahoma Earthquake Guidelines
Mar 1 2018 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has developed new requirements for oil and natural gas operators in the event of an earthquake. The commission announced the new protocol for operators in the newest and largest areas of...
Quake in Papua New Guinea Leads Exxon to Shut Production, Processing
Feb 26 2018 // Exxon Mobil Corp. has shut production platforms and a processing plant in the highlands of natural gas exporter Papua New Guinea after an earthquake struck the Pacific nation. The U.S. oil giant closed the facilities to...
Alaska Governor Wants $10M for Seismic Surveying
Feb 22 2018 // Gov. Bill Walker’s administration has asked the Alaska Legislature for permission to spend $10 million on seismic surveying in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The seismic survey funding was...
Lawyer: 13-Year-Old Oil Leak Off Louisiana Coast a ‘Long-Term Problem’
Feb 20 2018 // A 13-year-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico remains a “long-term problem” without a clear solution for eliminating chronic slicks that often stretch for miles off Louisiana’s coast, a government lawyer...
Kansas House Panel Rejects Earthquake-Prevention Bill
Feb 20 2018 // A Kansas House committee has rejected a bill that was designed to prevent earthquakes that experts say are caused by oil and gas production wastewater disposal methods. The Sierra Club and several Kansas residents who say...
Exxon Gets Combative with Critics Suing Over Climate Change Policy
Feb 15 2018 // As climate-change lawsuits against the oil industry mount, Exxon Mobil Corp. is taking a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes: It’s going after the lawyers who are suing it. The company has targeted at...
Fracking Earthquakes Pop Up in Unexpected Corner of Oklahoma’s Shale Patch
Feb 9 2018 // The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem. Ordered by regulators to curb the wastewater they were dumping deep into the ground, they watched with satisfaction as...
Storage Tank Spills At Least 1K Gallons of Oil Into North Carolina River
Feb 9 2018 // At least 1,000 gallons of petroleum fuel has spilled into a river in North Carolina. The Asheville-Citizen Times reports authorities have warned people to stay out of the French Broad River following Sunday’s spill...
Group Urges SEC Probe of California, Cites Climate Hypocrisy
Feb 7 2018 // California officials are downplaying the risks of climate change to bond investors while citing those same risks as the basis for a lawsuit against oil companies, according to a conservative think tank that has asked...
Oklahoma’s Supreme Court Says Oil Company Can Be Sued After Worker Injury or Death
Feb 5 2018 // The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that oil and natural gas companies can be sued when a worker is killed or injured on the job. The state’s highest court struck down a state workers’ compensation law that...
Louisiana Oil Spill Near Where Young Whooping Cranes Released
Feb 2 2018 // The Coast Guard says nearly 1,300 gallons of oil spilled from an oil production facility into southwest Louisiana wetlands near the areas where young endangered whooping cranes are released into the wild None of...
Study Finds Oklahoma’s Earthquakes Strongly Linked to Wastewater Injection Depth
Feb 2 2018 // A huge increase in the number of man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, is strongly linked to the depth at which wastewater from the oil and gas industry is injected into the ground, according to a new study involving the...
Legal Marijuana Worries Canadian Oil Companies with Strict Drug Testing Regimes
Feb 1 2018 // Once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, Garnet Amundson says it will get a lot harder to find the workers he needs at Essential Energy Services Ltd. And he isn’t the only employer who’s...
Oil Tanker Disaster to Be Probed by Maritime Authorities from China, Panama, Iran & HK
Jan 26 2018 // The maritime authorities of China, Panama, Iran and Hong Kong on Thursday signed an agreement to jointly investigate a collision in the East China Sea that caused the worst oil ship disaster in decades, according to...
