All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2010 // Mexico’s federal government could join a list of its states suing the companies blamed for the disastrous Gulf oil spill, claiming damage to fishing and tourism, the plaintiffs’ attorney said this week.Earlier...
Sep 30 2010 // The administrator of BP’s $20 billion fund to compensate people harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says some whose claims were denied will get paid after all. Kenneth Feinberg says the Gulf Coast Claims Facility...
Sep 28 2010 // Alabama expects to receive billions of dollars in penalties from BP Plc in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a state commission said Monday.BP and the White House will probably soon reach an agreement on how...
Sep 21 2010 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has appointed James Gardiner to lead its new Renewable Energy Unit. The new unit will provide specialized underwriting and a full suite of property and casualty insurance products...
Sep 20 2010 // Oil giant BP said it is providing $10 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a study of potential public health issues relating to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and other spill-related health...
Sep 17 2010 // The Hartford Financial Service Group Inc. has formed a Renewable Energy Unit to address the unique and evolving needs of the rapidly growing renewable energy industry. The new unit will provide specialized underwriting and...
Sep 17 2010 // Hurricane Karl bore down on Mexico’s central Gulf Coast on Friday, threatening to cause flash floods and mudslides, but it appeared to have spared Mexican offshore oil operations from major damage.Karl, which was...
Sep 17 2010 // The judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits spurred by BP Plc’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill brought his much-noted calm, easy manner to the first major hearing in what could be one of the most complex and costly court...
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc has turned down Alabama’s claim for $148 million in lost government revenue due to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the state’s attorney general, Troy King, said Friday.BP denied the claim because it...
Sep 17 2010 // The U.S. judge overseeing the hundreds lawsuits filed by shrimpers, restaurateurs and others against BP Plc and its partners as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill urged the parties on Thursday to consider an...
Sep 17 2010 // BP Plc and its partners in the blown-out Gulf well said on Monday that thousands of fishermen, seafood processors, restaurants, hotel owners and others may not yet have the right to sue over the spill, according to court...
Sep 16 2010 // Scores of attorneys will jam a federal courtroom today to argue for almost immediate access to emails and other documents from BP Plc and its business partners as the legal fight over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill heats...
Sep 15 2010 // Tropical Storm Karl hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Wednesday and was expected to head into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening Mexican oil installations and possibly gaining hurricane strength.Mexico’s state-run...
Sep 15 2010 // Crews have removed a 12-foot section of pipe at the site of an oil spill outside Chicago that led to a spike in regional gasoline prices, but it could take weeks to clean up the contamination, federal officials...
Sep 9 2010 // BP Plc and its Gulf of Mexico oil well partners traded blame Wednesday after an internal BP investigation tried to downplay the company’s role in the world’s biggest offshore spill.The 193-page BP report...
Sep 8 2010 // An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery Tuesday, killing one worker and pushing gasoline and diesel prices higher on worries state oil monopoly Pemex will have to import more fuel.Pemex, the world’s No....
Sep 8 2010 // BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was not caused by a single factor but by “multiple companies and work teams,” according to the oil giant’s internal investigation.BP’s...
Sep 7 2010 // Oil giant BP said it is providing $10 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a study of potential public health issues relating to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and other spill-related health...
Sep 3 2010 // BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion as the oil giant prepared to release the findings of an internal probe into the causes of the disaster.BP published figures...
Aug 30 2010 // A Covington, La., company has been hired to process applications for money from a $100 million fund set up by BP to help oil rig workers idled by a federal moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The...