All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2011 // A federal judge Monday said Alabama and Louisiana may seek punitive damages from companies including BP Plc for damages arising from last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The decision by U.S....
Nov 14 2011 // The Travelers Companies, Inc. have formed the Clean Energy & Technology Practice. This new practice offers clean energy and technology-focused insurance products, and risk and claim management resources.The practice...
Nov 10 2011 // BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil that washes up on the Gulf Coast unless officials can prove it comes from the company’s well that blew out in 2010, causing the worst offshore spill in U.S....
Nov 9 2011 // Federal researchers are looking for cleanup workers willing to participate in a $17.8 million study of long-term health effects from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.They want to interview more than 50,000...
Nov 9 2011 // North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has unveiled a $569 million plan to provide disaster aid to flood-stricken areas and to help western North Dakota towns struggling to cope with oil development.Speaking to a joint session...
Nov 9 2011 // The companies involved in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history are trying to prevent government investigations blaming them for the disaster from being used against them by the people and businesses who are suing...
Nov 7 2011 // A Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana judge has awarded more than $11 million to a Houma family stemming from a dispute over unpaid oil royalties.The Courier reports attorney Michael St. Martin and his wife, Virginia, filed a...
Nov 7 2011 // As the United States inches toward recovery, there are several industries that aren’t expected to improve along with the rest of the economy. In a risk analysis of U.S. industries, industry research firm IBISWorld...
Oct 28 2011 // Louisiana must quickly turn over documents requested by oil giant BP, or else face dismissal of its lawsuit against the company for losses caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a judge ruled Thursday.Louisiana faces...
Oct 26 2011 // One of seven oil companies charged with killing migratory birds during drilling operations in North Dakota has agreed to plead guilty and pay $12,000.Slawson Exploration Co. Inc., of Wichita, Kan., was charged under the...
Oct 18 2011 // Anadarko Petroleum Corp. will pay BP Plc $4 billion toward clean-up and victim compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The amount is less than BP might have won in court, but it softens the blow of overall...
Oct 18 2011 // Anadarko Petroleum Corp will pay BP Plc $4 billion toward clean-up and victim compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The amount is less than BP might have won in court, but it softens the blow of overall...
Oct 18 2011 // Salvage crews raced Monday to pump oil from a stricken ship teetering on a reef off the New Zealand coast, while also preparing for the worst: Authorities believe the vessel will break apart or sink soon.The salvage work...
Oct 17 2011 // It was a busy weekend for oil and fuel spills around Washington’s coast.Containment efforts are wrapped up on three oil or fuel spills off the state’s coast. On Saturday, a barge carrying a 5-ton crane that...
Oct 13 2011 // The U.S. offshore drilling regulator Wednesday formally issued sanctions against BP and the major contractors involved in the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and spewed more than 4...
Oct 12 2011 // Rough weather has jostled a cargo ship stuck off New Zealand’s coast and worsened its oil leak fivefold to make it the country’s worst-ever maritime environmental disaster, the government said Tuesday.Clumps of...
Oct 11 2011 // Finding the capital to get a new power plant in the ground is no small task for any company, but for developers aiming to use emerging clean energy technologies, the challenges are even greater. A California clean energy...
Oct 6 2011 // Oklahoma’s economy showed more signs of improvement in September, with increases across all major tax sectors compared to the same time last year, although the growth rate has slowed, State Treasurer Ken Miller...
Oct 5 2011 // Oil and gas companies must improve the way they deal with safety issues in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico and Montara oil spills, regulators said at a two-day conference on safety in the sector.The issue has come to the...
Oct 3 2011 // Findings of the second major investigation by the U.S. government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill may press BP into putting more than $30 billion on the table to quickly settle its outstanding legal headaches.The...