Exxon Hit With New Lawsuit Over Yellowstone Spill
More than a dozen eastern Montana landowners have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. claiming the company ignored warnings before a pipeline break that spilled an estimated 1,500 barrels of...
View ArticleYellowstone Oil Spill: Feds Say Delay Made Oil Spill Worse
Delays in Exxon Mobil Corp.’s response to a major pipeline break beneath Montana’s Yellowstone River made an oil spill far worse than it otherwise would have been, federal regulators said in a new...
View ArticleYellowstone Oil Spill-Violations $1.7M Penalty Proposed In Exxon Spill
Federal pipeline regulators have proposed $1.7 million in penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. for a pipeline rupture that spewed crude oil into Montana’s Yellowstone River. The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Jury Finds Exxon Mobil Liable for $236.4M in U.S. Pollution Suit
A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found Exxon Mobil Corp liable for $236.4 million in a civil lawsuit that charged the oil company had polluted groundwater in the state with a gasoline additive used to...
View ArticleThird Lawsuit Filed Over Montana Crude Oil Spill
A third lawsuit has been filed by property owners alleging damages from an Exxon Mobil Corp. oil spill that dumped an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River. The suit alleges...
View ArticleLouisiana Agency Sues Big Oil Firms for Hurting Wetlands
A Louisiana agency sued 97 oil companies – including BP Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc – in state court on Wednesday for allegedly damaging hundreds of miles of sensitive...
View ArticleMontana, Feds To Seek Damages From Exxon Spill
Montana and federal officials say they’ll seek compensation from Exxon Mobil Corp. for natural resource damages caused by a crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River. Thursday’s announcement comes two...
View ArticleLegal Fallout Continues over Arkansas Oil Leak
Lawsuits and alleged safety violations are mounting against Exxon Mobil Corp. following the rupture eight months ago of a pipeline that spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas. Since...
View ArticleVermont AG Sues 2 Dozen U.S. Refiners Over Pollution
BP Plc, Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. are among two dozen U.S. refiners sued by Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell and accused of polluting the state’s groundwater with a gasoline additive....
View ArticleCalifornia Refinery Blast Sprays Ash, Bursts Windows
An explosion and fire at Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Torrance, California, refinery sent ash spraying on nearby cars and burst windows of surrounding buildings Wednesday. The explosion occurred near a fluid...
View ArticleJudge Dismisses Mayflower, Arkansas Oil Spill Lawsuit
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...
View ArticleExxon Ordered to Pay $1M Penalty For Montana Spill
U.S. officials have rejected Exxon Mobil Corp.’s request to reconsider a $1 million penalty imposed against the oil giant over a 63,000-gallon crude spill into Montana’s Yellowstone River. The U.S....
View ArticleJudge Approves Exxon’s $225M New Jersey Pollution Settlement
Exxon Mobil Corp’s $225 million settlement with the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of a longstanding environmental pollution case won approval on Tuesday from a state judge, over...
View ArticleU.S. and Alaska Won’t Seek Another $92M From Exxon For Spill Decades Ago
U.S. and Alaska state officials announced on Wednesday they will no longer seek an additional $92 million from Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for environmental cleanup and restoration stemming from the...
View ArticleArkansas Utility Wants U.S. to Uphold Exxon Mobil Spill-Related Fines
A water utility company in Arkansas is urging a federal regulatory agency to uphold fines and new safety requirements for Exxon Mobil Corp. regarding an oil spill in Mayflower. In a letter to the...
View ArticleIn Texas Court, Exxon Files to Block Climate-Change Document Subpoena
Exxon Mobil Corp. is squaring off against government investigators who believe the energy giant covered up knowledge of how fossil fuels contribute to climate change. Exxon went to state court this...
View ArticleU.S. Top Court Rejects Exxon’s Appeal of $236M Verdict in N.H. Pollution Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s appeal of a $236 million judgment against the oil company in a case brought by the state of New Hampshire over groundwater contamination...
View ArticleExxon Heads for Courtroom Faceoff With New York in Climate Change Probe
Exxon Mobil Corp. is headed to a courtroom in New York for the first time to try to block the state’s demand for accounting documents about how climate change will affect its finances. New York...
View ArticleExxon Adds New York to Suit in Bid to Stop Climate Change Probe
Exxon Mobil Corp. sued New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to stop his investigation into what the company knew about climate change. The oil giant on Thursday revised a lawsuit it filed in...
View ArticleExxon Climate Judge Orders ‘Unprecedented’ Questioning
A federal judge in Texas is giving Exxon Mobil Corp. an unprecedented chance to question a state law-enforcement officer who is investigating whether the energy company hid damaging data about climate...
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