The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico last year, is planning to take further legal action against BP as it seeks to prove that the British company should be liable for almost all the costs of the disaster. Legal arguments from …
With a federal decision anticipated soon on whether an oil pipeline will be allowed to run from Canada through the nation’s midsection, lawmakers in Nebraska are being summoned on Tuesday to an unexpected legislative session over the issue, which has stirred up a level of rancor that few had predicted. …
The European Union Thursday unveiled draft plans to regulate offshore oil and gas across the bloc and guard against a repeat of BP's catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill as firms drill deeper to tap remaining reserves. The proposals are the first attempt to regulate the offshore industry across the 27-member …
Britain has been blamed by environmentalists for seeking to delay attempts by the European Union to penalise oil derived from tar sands. This month the European Commission decided that it would classify such oil as being nearly a quarter more polluting than conventional crude. In order to import such oil, …
The British oil company BP said Monday that a partner in the well that exploded last year in the Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko Petroleum, had agreed to pay $4 billion to settle claims related to the ensuing oil spill. The settlement ends a long dispute between BP, which operated the …
No oil is leaking from the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig or pipe around the vessel, its owner Transocean said on Wednesday. A two-day underwater investigation by Transocean and the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that no oil is leaking from the Deepwater Horizon, which sank in April 2010 in the …
The Interior Department formally cited BP and its two chief contractors on Wednesday for numerous safety and environmental violations in the operation of the doomed Deepwater Horizon well. The citations, which could lead to millions of dollars in fines, arose from an investigation of the April 2010 explosion that killed …
BP PLC Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to developing oil and gas resources in the U.K. North Sea by announcing a £4 billion ($6.30 billion) investment in the giant Clair field, as the British oil producer devotes its highest-ever annual investment to its home market. BP's U.K. investment, which will stand …
Excess phosphorus is polluting our environment while, ironically, mineable resources of this essential nutrient are limited. James Elser and Elena Bennett argue that recycling programmes are urgently needed.
A salt water pipeline leak offshore Alabama has forced ExxonMobil to halt gas production in the Mobile Bay area of the Gulf of Mexico, the company said on Thursday. A sheen was detected on the water on Tuesday night, one mile south of Dauphin Island where ExxonMobil runs a number …
Auburn University researchers said oil mats submerged in the seabed more than a year after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history pose long-term threats to coastal ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. The study, released on Tuesday by the school's engineering department, showed that tarballs churned to the …
Tropical Storm Ophelia was churning its way toward the Caribbean on Wednesday after intensifying overnight, but U.S. forecasters said it was not expected to strengthen into a hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Ophelia, the 15th named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, formed late on Tuesday …
There is expected to be intense bargaining over the size of any payment concerning the Deepwater Horizon blast Mistakes made by other companies on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig do not affect BP’s potential liability for gross negligence in the Macondo disaster last year, US legal experts have said, keeping …
Findings of the second major investigation by the government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, may press BP into putting over $30 billion on the table to quickly settle its outstanding legal headaches. The joint Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement probe into …
BP, running weeks behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars over budget in trying to complete its troubled Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, took many shortcuts that contributed to the disastrous blowout and oil spill there last year, federal investigators concluded in a report released on Wednesday. …
A leak from a shallow water crude oil pipeline in the Main Pass Area of the Gulf of Mexico has led Chevron to shut down its offshore Louisiana Main Pass pipeline network, the company said on Tuesday. Chevron has also shut its Cypress line, the company said. About 15,000 barrels …
Tropical Storm Nate sprang to life in the western Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, Tropical Storm Maria formed in the Atlantic and Hurricane Katia churned up surf along Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast, forecasters said. The trio of tropical cyclones came during what is traditionally the busiest part of …
President Obama abandoned a contentious new air pollution rule on Friday, buoying business interests that had lobbied heavily against it, angering environmentalists who called the move a betrayal and unnerving his own top environmental regulators. The president rejected a proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that would have significantly …
US oil-services giant Halliburton said Friday that it was filing a defamation lawsuit against BP over the devastating 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “Halliburton… filed claims against BP in Texas state court for negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation related to the April 20, 2010, Macondo incident,” …
Record-breaking triple-digit temperatures were prolonging a devastating drought that has been baking the South and the dry spell could extend into next year and beyond, climate experts said on Thursday. "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse... we are seeing expansion of this drought. This drought will continue …
