PARKERS PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Thousands of gallons of oil leaked onto frozen ground after a train carrying crude from Canada derailed Wednesday in western Minnesota.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Testimony has ended in a marathon trial over whether Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay the state of New Hampshire hundreds of millions of dollars to monitor and treat private wells and public drinking supplies contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal regulators proposed $1.7 million in civil penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday for safety violations linked to a pipeline rupture that spilled an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude oil into Montana's scenic Yellowstone River.
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's government declared an environmental state of emergency on Monday in a remote Amazon jungle region it says has been affected by years of contamination at the country's most productive oil fields, which are currently operated by Argentina-based Pluspetrol.
NEW YORK (AP) — Few sights capture Manhattan's beauty like the grand, old apartment buildings that ring Central Park. But for decades, many of these mansions for the rich and famous have also been a literal source of urban grit.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday finalized a plan to make about 700,000 acres of federal lands in three western states available for oil shale research and development, and another 130,000 acres available for tar sands development.
The department first laid out the plan through a proposed programmatic environmental impact statement last fall. The record of decision makes available Bureau of Land Management oil shale areas in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and tar sands areas in Utah.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two international shipping firms pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction and other charges in connection with what the U.S. Attorney's Office characterized as a pattern of falsifying records to hide the illegal dumping of engine sludge and oil-contaminated waste into the ocean.
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered Enbridge, a Canadian oil sands pipeline operator, to dredge additional oil from the site of the 2010 Kalamazoo River spill, The Detroit Free Press reports.
Exxon Mobil projected expanded use of natural gas and renewable fuels coupled with energy efficiency measures would cut carbon emissions to 1970s levels by 2040, Bloomberg reports.
A witness testifying in New Hampshire on behalf of Exxon Mobil said the company did testing on gasoline additive MTBE before adding it to its fuel and didn't provide specific warnings about it because there was no perceived threat, Bloomberg reports.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it would not finish its study of hydraulic fracturing's impact on drinking water until 2016, the Akron Beacon Journal reports.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is pressing Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to reject the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's compromise chemical safety bill because she doesn't think the legislation is strong enough, Roll Call reports.
A draft Environmental Protection Agency report faults Washington state for failures in oversight at the contaminated Hanford Nuclear Reservation, The Associated Press reports.
A group of 21 states urged the Environmental Protection Agency not to allow lawsuit threats to force its hand on regulations for carbon emissions from new power plants, The Hill reports.
The link between natural gas prices and oil prices is increasingly eroding as new supplies of gas are discovered and competition increases, The New York Times reports.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Republican Gabriel Gomez were increasingly aggressive in the final Massachusetts Senate debate last night, Politico reports.
Duke Energy's selection of Lynn Good for CEO makes her the company's first female CEO and makes Duke the largest energy company led by a woman, Bloomberg reports.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it discovered dangerous levels of radioactivity in the groundwater surrounding the crippled Fukushima plant, Bloomberg reports.
