August 10, 2018
State and federal officials are asking Exxon Mobil to pay more than $1.8 million in compensation for a 2013 oil spill in Arkansas. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the state Game and Fish Commission proposed the settlement Tuesday. The funds …
August 18, 2017
An appeals court has voided an order that would have required Exxon Mobil to revise its pipeline safety procedures after a 2013 oil spill in Arkansas. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued the order in 2015, and it …
August 13, 2015
A federal judge has signed an agreement among the operators of an oil pipeline and state and federal governments to end a lawsuit filed over a pipeline rupture that soiled land and water in central Arkansas in 2013. U.S. District …
July 20, 2015
An Arkansas water utility has expressed objection to the Justice Department’s proposed settlement with Exxon Mobil over a 2013 pipeline spill in the Mayflower neighborhood. Central Arkansas Water’s opposition to the settlement stems from concerns that it doesn’t require the …
April 24, 2015
Two subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil must pay almost $5 million in penalties for state and federal violations involving the 2013 Mayflower oil spill in central Arkansas, according to a consent decree filed in federal court on April 22. The decree …
March 19, 2015
A federal class-action lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corporation over a 2013 crude oil spill in central Arkansas has been dismissed by a federal judge, who acknowledged in his ruling that his decision seems unfair. U.S. District Judge Brian Miller on …
November 22, 2013
ExxonMobil estimates that the March oil spill in an Arkansas subdivision has caused more than $70.5 million in damages for the company, according to documents recently filed with the federal government. The figures were reported in an updated accident report …
April 9, 2013
Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the company on April 5. The class-action complaint from Kimla Greene and Kathryn Jane Roachell …