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 …
Lego A/S, the Danish toymaker, won’t renew a promotional deal with Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) to hand out toys to people filling up at its gas stations after a Greenpeace campaign protesting against Arctic drilling. A video by the environmental group showing Lego toys drowning in oil in an …
Cheniere's liquefied natural gas export project in Texas will not cause significant damage to the environment, federal regulators said on Wednesday, keeping the project on track to potentially receive a construction license by year-end. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's final environmental review concluded that with proper mitigation measures, the construction …
Lego will not renew its marketing contract with Shell after coming under sustained pressure from Greenpeace to end a partnership that dates to the 1960s. The environmental campaign group, protesting about the oil giant’s plans to drill in the Arctic, had targeted the world’s biggest toy maker with a YouTube …
THE people of Kalaba and Ayamabele communities in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have been subjected to untold hardship, pain and losses over a massive oil spillage from facility operated by a multinational oil company which devastated their communities and threw many out of their natural occupation of …
A European Union plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting in its fight against climate change has been abandoned after years of opposition led by major producer Canada. A proposal published by the European Commission on Tuesday removes an obstacle to Canada exporting tar sands crude to Europe …
Chad is prepared to re-auction oil-extraction licenses it has revoked from China National Petroleum Corporation, if the company doesn't pay a fine for alleged environmental violations, the country’s Minister of Planning, Economy and International Cooperation, Kordjé Bedoumra, said in an interview Monday. The dispute between the government of Chad and …
BP Plc (BP/) is seeking to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill in a move opposing lawyers warn could open the floodgates to challenging hundreds of thousands of individual damage-claim awards. BP, which is struggling to hold down the estimated $9.2 billion cost of …
More than 300,000 people marched in New York a week ago, with tens of thousands more in cities across the globe. More than 120 heads of state and government convened in New York, renewing their commitment to a global climate deal to be forged next year. France pledged $1bn in …
Six international oil and gas companies have agreed to slash their emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The energy firms will partner with more than a dozen countries on the United Nations-led initiative, which was announced Tuesday at the U.N. climate change summit in New York City. Helge Lund, …
According to oft-cited statistics, climate scientists are 95%-99% certain of climate change – about as certain as they are of the link between smoking and lung cancer. Nonetheless, an estimated 58% of US Republican congressmen claim to be unconvinced of it. This group, the so-called “climate denier caucus,” is a …
Chevron CVX -0.94% Pipe Line Co. has shut down a natural-gas pipeline that feeds Gulf of Mexico production to the Henry Hub storage and delivery point in Louisiana in the wake of a deadly accident. A contract worker performing routine maintenance on an offshore gas pipeline was killed Saturday and …
BP Plc acted with gross negligence in setting off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled, handing down a long-awaited decision that may force the energy company to pay billions of dollars more for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier …
(Reuters) - An Exxon Mobil Corp unit has agreed to pay $1.4 million to resolve U.S. government claims over a 2012 crude oil spill in Louisiana, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. ExxonMobil Pipeline Company discharged 2,800 barrels of crude oil after a pipeline ruptured, in violation of the …
VISAKHAPATNAM: The preliminary Marine Environment Impact Assessment (MEIA) report on the Visakhapatnam-Kakinada Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) has been submitted to the PCPIR Special Development Authority (PCPIR-SDA) by Chennai-based Indomer Coastal Hydraulics, the agency that was entrusted the task, a release issued by the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has given environment clearance to Cairn India to raise crude oil production from its prolific Rajasthan block by 50 per cent to 300,000 barrels a day. In an August 11 order posted on its website, the Ministry also gave environment clearance to Cairn …
An oil pipeline spill that contaminated a river in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon will take months to clean up, the country's top water authority said on Thursday. The 24-inch Madero-Cadereyta pipeline, owned by national oil company Pemex, was ruptured when thieves attempted to tap into it, the …
Vermilion Energy, an international oil and gas producer, has launched its first sustainability report which lays out details of the company's plans to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions, reduce waste and lower the amount of water and energy it uses. The recently published report by Vermilion is entitled 'Value Matters' …
Guangdong, the biggest of China's seven pilot carbon trading markets, will this year hand out around 6 percent more emission permits to companies than in 2013, potentially aggravating oversupply that sent prices tumbling earlier this year. The market is meant to rein in climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions from power stations, …
US oil and gas player Apache has made what is being heralded by some as Australia's largest oil discovery in the past 30 years, potentially pointing to a new oil province off the north-west coast. The field found by the Phoenix South-1 well, which had been seen more likely to …
KARAK: People of Terri union council of Banda Daud Shah on Monday staged a rally against a foreign oil and gas exploration company for releasing toxic effluents into the fields and natural watercourses. The protest was staged outside the company’s central processing facility at Ahmadi Banda, with protesters demanding of …
