The accident incident report from ExxonMobil's Mayflower spill, requested by the Sierra Club, says the company hasn't recovered 3,000 barrels of oil, The Energy Collective reports.
BP said it will spend a total $665 million of up to $1 billion on Gulf of Mexico restoration projects, up from $340 earlier this week, FuelFix reports.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Roughly 300 gallons of crude oil spilled early Friday into the Mississippi River near St. Louis after a vessel on the rain-swollen waterway slammed into a fleet of docked barges, causing 14 of them to briefly break away, according to the Coast Guard.
The Ontario Superior Court dismissed a lawsuit by Ecuadorian villagers to force Chevron Corp. to pay a $19 billion judgement for alleged oil pollution in the country's rainforest, The Associated Press reports.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A crew that was cleaning fuel barges in Mobile Bay likely caused a spark the triggered an explosion and critically burned three workers.
BAY JIMMY, La. (AP) — At first glance, the marshy, muddy coastline of Bay Jimmy in southeast Louisiana appears healthy three years after the nation's worst offshore oil spill. Brown pelicans and seagulls cruise the shoreline, plucking fish and crabs from the water. Snails hold firm to tall blades of marsh grass.
ExxonMobil Corp. offered to purchase homes in a neighborhood affected by a spill from its Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Ark. as part of a larger compensation package for homeowners, Dow Jones Newswires reports.
ExxonMobil Corp. said it has yet to develop a plan to restart the Pegasus pipeline that spilled about 5,000 barrels of oil near Mayflower, Ark. last month, Reuters reprots.
Burford Capital, the litigation finance firm that backed the representation for plaintiffs in Chevron's Ecuador oil pollution case, said it was misled by the plaintiffs' lawyer Steve Donziger and law firm Patton Boggs, Fortune reports.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill that would alter the sale of helium from the Federal Helium Reserve, Roll Call reports.
A number of environmental and health groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency to force a review of the agency's smog pollution standards, The Hill reports.
Amendments to the House version of a five-year farm bill up for debate would require farmers to follow conservation guidelines to qualify for crop insurance subsidies, E&E reports.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed charging the Tennessee Valley Authority a $70,000 fine for quality violations at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, The Associated Press reports.
Ash Grove Cement Co., based in Kansas, agreed to pay a $2.5 million penalty and invest $30 million in air pollution controls to settle EPA air pollution allegations, The Associated Press reports.
Friends of the Earth aired a television advertisement criticizing Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for supporting the Savannah River MOX facility in his state, The Associated Press reports.
Canadian investment bank Peters & Co. said the United States will need to import crude from Canadian oil sands as the current surge in shale oil will be too expensive to keep up, Bloomberg reports.
