All the headlines from our Energy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 24 2014 // Money from the first and only settlement so far in a Louisiana flood board’s lawsuit against dozens of energy companies will be placed in a special account dedicated to coastal restoration.The Southeast Louisiana...
Nov 20 2014 // Russian companies face billions of dollars in extra insurance costs as Western sanctions prompt foreign insurance firms to start pulling out, worried that any business they undertake is at risk from future measures and an...
Nov 12 2014 // A South Mississippi man faces trial in a federal fraud case alleging he lied about his past employment to get $25,800 in oil spill recovery money.Court records showed Shawn Albert Townsel received the money after claiming...
Nov 11 2014 // Nature and a multimillion dollar rock pile built in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill have healed a large barrier island nine years after it was sliced in two by Hurricane Katrina.Katrina swamped Alabama’s...
Nov 11 2014 // BP Plc lost a bid to remove Patrick Juneau, the claims administrator overseeing payouts for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill, according to a New Orleans federal court ruling Monday.Juneau is in charge of the London-based...
Nov 7 2014 // A federal appeals court panel has reaffirmed its ruling that BP is liable for federal Clean Water Act damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the latest loss for the oil giant as it fights court decisions...
Nov 5 2014 // A Canadian pipeline company says it has cost about $1.21 billion to clean up a 2010 oil spill into the Kalamazoo River system in Michigan. TV stations WOOD and WWMT report Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Inc. released the...
Nov 3 2014 // Two of the smaller players in a New Orleans area flood board’s lawsuit against the oil industry over damage to the state’s coast have agreed to a settlement.An attorney for the Southeast Louisiana Flood...
Oct 29 2014 // Hijackings of small oil tankers by armed gangs are increasing in Southeast Asia, home to the shortest sea-trade route between the Middle East and China, even as pirate attacks globally fell for a third year.Five of the six...
Oct 27 2014 // Complaints about trucks tearing up parish roads have prompted the St. Landry Parish Council in Louisiana to re-examine how road-use permits are issued and how the parish can force those causing the damage to pay for...
Oct 24 2014 // A weak El Nino will probably develop by the year-end, according to MDA Weather Services.While sea-surface temperatures are warmer than normal across most areas in the tropical Pacific ocean, it still doesn’t qualify...
Oct 21 2014 // Cleanup crews continue to mop up a 4,000-barrell oil spill into a four-mile stretch of Tete Bayou northwest of Shreveport, La.Officials said that the oil has been contained without reaching Caddo Lake, which straddles the...
Oct 21 2014 // Methane emissions will likely be the next big environmental issue to face North Dakota’s booming oil industry according to a top official at the state’s Department of Health.Dave Glatt, chief of the Department...
Oct 20 2014 // Southern Illinois landowners are suing the state for failing to implement hydraulic fracturing, calling the long-running process for adopting rules governing the oil and gas extraction method tantamount to illegal...
Oct 20 2014 // A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud conviction of man who pretended to be a shrimp-boat captain and alleged he lost his livelihood to collect oil spill recovery money.A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Court of...
Oct 17 2014 // Three Mississippi businessmen argue in a federal lawsuit that Texas attorneys owe them $7.9 million for steering to them thousands of people seeking to resolve claims against BP from the 2010 Gulf oil spill.Gulf Coast...
Oct 16 2014 // A new study suggests fracking triggered hundreds of small, unnoticeable earthquakes in eastern Ohio late last year, months before the state first linked seismic activity to the much-debated oil-and-gas extraction...
Oct 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors said three people have been convicted of fraudulently filing Gulf Oil Spill Fund loss claims.Officials said 53-year-old Marcella Truss, her 42-year-old husband Martee Davis and the woman’s...
Oct 14 2014 // Millions of gallons of crude oil are passing through western Pennsylvania — up to 75 trains each week on their way to refineries in the East — according to records released by state emergency management...
Oct 9 2014 // American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, introduced a policy to help railroads handle losses from catastrophic accidents as more crude oil is shipped by trains.The insurer...