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Exxon Mobil Sued for Race Discrimination

Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil Chemical Corporation, violated federal law when it failed to take effective measures to prevent the display of hangman’s nooses at its Baton Rouge complex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in …

Supreme Court Keeps Louisiana Wetland Damage Lawsuits in State Courts

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A lawsuit against oil and gas companies over damage to Louisiana’s wetlands will remain in state court, the U.S. Supreme Court said, rejecting an appeal by major energy companies who wanted to get the case moved …

Hub Acquires Louisiana’s Dwight W. Andrus Insurance

Hub International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of Dwight W. Andrus Insurance Inc., Dwight Andrus & Richard Insurance, Inc., and DAI Shreve, LLC (Dwight Andrus Insurance). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana …

Oklahoma Captive Program Grows 15% in 2022

The state of Oklahoma added 11 new captive insurance companies in 2022 and has already issued three additional captive insurer licenses in 2023, according to the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID). Oklahoma also reported four captive dissolutions in 2022. The state …

Texas Utility Regulators Propose Changes to Electricity Market

The winter storm that hit Texas in February 2021 strained the state’s electricity grid so much that power had to be cut to millions of homes and businesses to prevent the grid’s complete failure. At least 200 people died, many …

Tx. Metal-Plating Company Fined $292K After Workers Exposed to Dangerous Acids

A federal workplace safety investigation of an El Paso jewelry metal-plating finisher found the company again exposing workers to serious hazards, including willfully failing to protect people working with dangerous acids and other chemicals from potentially permanent eye injuries. The …

Study Says Back-to-Back Hurricanes Likely to Come More Often

What used to be a rare one-two punch of consecutive hurricanes hitting about the same place in the United States weeks apart seems to be happening more often, and a new study says climate change will make back-to-back storms more …

Storm Across Texas and Oklahoma Likely Qualified as a Derecho

A long line of quick-moving thunderstorms that produced a swath of damaging wind gusts across northern Texas and Oklahoma late Sunday likely qualified the event as a derecho, although that’s not an official designation, said Nolan Meister, a meteorologist with …

Texas High Plains Blanketed by Dust Storms

LUBBOCK — The Texas High Plains is a vast swath of oil-rich soil and farm and ranch land as far as the eye can see — only the peaks of Caprock Canyon break up the endless miles of plains in …

La. Judge Mulling Further Sanctions Against Hurricane Damage Law Firm

A federal judge in New Orleans has called owners of McClenny Moseley & Associates back into his courtroom again, this time to decide if the law firm should be sanctioned — and if so, how much — for making misrepresentations …

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