Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Environmental groups and some New Jersey lawmakers issued new criticism on Tuesday of the state’s proposed $225 million pollution settlement with Exxon Mobil Corporation, one day after the state made the text of the deal public. The State Department of Environmental Protection posted the agreement on its website on Monday, …
It's been almost five years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploding, sending gallons upon gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists have assessed the wildlife in the Gulf, and have found that it's still suffering from the oil spill. "Five years later, wildlife in the Gulf …
New Jersey lawmakers sent a bill to Governor Chris Christie on Thursday that calls for more money from environmental settlements to fund cleanups. The legislation came after the Christie administration announced a controversial $225 million deal with Exxon Mobil Corp on March 5 over environmental contamination from two of its …
Yenagoa — Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, have differed on oil spills investigation process in Bayelsa State. ERA/FoEN, an environment non-governmental organisation, accused Shell of withholding Joint Investigation Visit, JIV, reports of oil spill incidents traced to equipment failure to evade …
Yenagoa — The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) has raised the alarm that Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has been denying host communities in the Niger Delta access to Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) reports indicting the company over oil spill incidents. The group, in a statement on …
Communities impacted by the 2011 Shell's Bonga offshore oil spill in Bayelsa and Delta States have commenced verification of claims by people impacted by the incident. George Ibobra, the immediate past Chairman of the Community Development Committee Chairman of Koluama 2 in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa, told journalists …
British Petroleum is the latest company to pull its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), the oil company announced on Monday. The oil giant is now the second oil and gas company to leave the conservative nonprofit that acts as a conservative lobbying group. BP’s departure follows a …
The US government is expected this week to give the go-ahead to a controversial plan by Shell to restart drilling for oil in the Arctic. The green light from Sally Jewell, the interior secretary, will spark protests from environmentalists who have campaigned against proposed exploration by the Anglo-Dutch group in …
A federal appeals court upheld a district judge's decision to drop manslaughter charges against two former BP Plc (BP.L) well site managers over their roles in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil drilling disaster that killed 11 people. Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine were the two highest-ranking supervisors on board …
Global oil giant BP has apologised again and again for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But lately, the company has been sounding less remorseful. Take a look at "The Whole Story." It's a web page operated by the London-based company that regularly addresses what BP calls "misinformation" about …
New Jersey’s decision to settle a multibillion-dollar pollution lawsuit with Exxon Mobil Corporation has come under broad criticism, as lawmakers and environmentalists have questioned why the state would agree to accept only $225 million — a small fraction of the $8.9 billion in damages it was seeking in court. But …
An oil leak from Seibou Deep facility operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company has been discharging crude into Ogboinbiri River in Bayelsa. Residents of the coastal settlements in Ogboinbiri and neigbouring communities say the oil leak has damaged the fishing activities of the people. Some residents who depend on the …
Yenagoa — Oil producing communities in Bayelsa State are scrambling for oil spill compensation forms to enable them benefit from the N3.96 billion compensation following the December 2011 Bonga oil spill incident. About 40,000 barrels of crude oil were discharged into the Atlantic Ocean after an operational mishap at the …
Hundreds of thousands of academics, engineers and lawyers in Denmark are set to vote on divesting their €32bn (£23bn) pension funds from the fossil fuels that drive climate change. The first of a series of resolutions will be filed on Monday asking six funds to dump their coal investments by …
Shareholders ask the five largest US oil companies – Valero, Exxon Mobil, Marathon Petroleum, Phillips 66 and Chevron – to disclose the risks their operations and facilities face from rising sea levels and storm surges Investors and nonprofits on Thursday asked the five largest US oil companies to disclose risks …
BP Plc on Monday appealed a federal judge's finding of the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which leaves the company potentially liable to pay $13.7 billion in fines. In January, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans ruled that 3.19 million barrels of oil had …
Two people died and at least 13 were injured after an explosion at a factory belonging to Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, police said on Monday. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Officials at the company could not immediately be reached. …
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. didn’t pay any response or cleanup costs for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a witness for the company told a judge in a trial to determine pollution fines for the disaster. That may undermine Anadarko’s argument that it shouldn’t be fined for the spill, while …
Oil company has sold assets worth more than $40bn to pay for fines and liabilities from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill BP is selling off a stake in two promising discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico and transferring their operation to a US group in its latest attempt to …
AGL's coal seam gas ambitions in the Gloucester area have been dealt a double blow with the launch of two government investigations into the detection of toxic BTEX chemicals in flowback water from two of the company's four wells. The energy giant is also at risk of losing a key …
