Environmental Activists Train Drone Pilots to Find and Pursue Pollution July 1, 2022 By Michael Phillis and Julio Cortez POOLESVILLE, Md. (AP) — When environmentalist Brent Walls saw a milky-white substance in a stream flowing through a rural stretch...
Dredging Company to Pay $1M for Restoration Work Oil Spill June 23, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil...
Dam Operator Sued After Turf Released In Puyallup River March 16, 2021 TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Environmental groups in Washington state have sued an electric utility company, alleging the company violated the...
Analysis: Mississippi Pump Proposal Evokes Strong Reactions November 16, 2020 By Emily Wagster Pettus JACKSON, Miss. — Farmers, rural shopkeepers and Mississippi politicians from both major parties are speaking out to support a proposed...
Race Track Settles With Feds For Manure, Urine Discharges October 2, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — The owners of the horse racing track in New Orleans have agreed to pay a $2.8 million...
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Limit Water Pollution Claims February 19, 2019 The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider limiting the scope of a landmark law aimed at curbing water...
Federal Utility Says $900M to Move Power Plant Ash to Landfill November 20, 2017 A federal utility’s top executive estimated Thursday that it would cost $900 million and take 24 years to comply with...
BP Settlement Allows Oil Giant to Write Off $15.3B as Tax Deduction October 7, 2015 Today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice of a proposed $20.8 billion out-of-court settlement with BP to resolve charges...
BP Oil Spill Settlement Finalized, Rises to More Than $20B October 5, 2015 By Rakteem Katakey, Del Quentin Wilber and Margaret Cronin Fisk The value of BP Plc’s settlement with the U.S. government and five Gulf states over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
BP Appeals Federal Judge’s Ruling Gulf Oil Spill Size February 26, 2015 BP Plc on Monday appealed a federal judge’s finding of the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill,...