NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors have secured new indictments against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing investigations of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler avoided a showdown with government safety regulators Tuesday, agreeing to recall 2.7 million older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire.
DETROIT (AP) — In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions.
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Finding tar balls linked to the BP oil spill isn't difficult on some Gulf Coast beaches, but the company and the government say it isn't common enough to keep sending out the crews that patrolled the sand for three years in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Cleanup work has ended in three of the states affected by BP PLC's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday.
DETROIT (AP) — Just two days after refusing a government request to recall 2.7 million older-model Jeeps, Chrysler has decided to do two other recalls totaling 630,000 vehicles worldwide.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended a freeze on the Argentine assets of Chevron Corp. that had been ordered late last year following a suit by the winners of a $19 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador.
DETROIT (AP) — A defiant Chrysler is refusing a government request to recall about 2.7 million sport utility vehicles to fix fuel tanks that could leak and cause fires in rear-end collisions.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington and promised a new cleanup plan by the end of summer, The Associated Press reports.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said Republicans will soon introduce a bill to establish Yucca Mountain as the nation's sole nuclear waste storage site, The Hill reports.
Bonnie Lautenberg, widow of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, has lobbied Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to push her husband's chemical safety legislation, Roll Call reports.
The International Energy Agency projected natural gas would become an important transportation fuel within the next five years on cheaper prices and air pollution concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Unlike most oil companies, BP is lobbying Congress to maintain the Renewable Fuel Standard based on its partnership with DuPont to develop a new alternative fuel by year's end, Bloomberg reports.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would make a strong candidate to fill her committee's empty seat if he wins the Massachusetts Senate election, The Hill reports.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., led a group of Republican senators to criticize the Obama administration's recent shift in the "social cost" of carbon in calculating the benefits of new regulations, The Hill reports.
Mining equipment manufacturers are improving machine efficiency and productivity to help mining companies counter high labor costs and declining prices, Reuters reports.
Ratepayers in Pittsfield, Mass. will see an increase in sewer costs as the city makes an estimated $40 million in EPA-required improvements to the system, the Berkshire Eagle reports.
