North Carolina Senate outlaws disclosure of fracking fluid secrets
(Reuters) - The North Carolina Senate on Thursday voted to make it a crime to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, even as big U.S. oil companies...
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Supreme Court denies petition to hear Los Angeles stormwater case
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a ruling that found Los Angeles County liable for pollution runoff into Southern California rivers after big rain storms,...
Chevron wins a round in U.S. suit against lawyer in Ecuador case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by a U.S. lawyer to stall the enforcement of a ruling that found he used fraud to secure...
U.S. weighs crackdown on environmental damage from pot growers
(Reuters) - Even as states legalize marijuana, some U.S. officials are demanding tougher sentences for illegal pot growers if they also invade public lands, kill native vegetation and wildlife, and...
Chevron’s U.S. win in Ecuador case looms over cases elsewhere
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ecuadorean villagers who are trying to get billions of dollars from Chevron Corp for pollution in the Amazon jungle are ready to refocus their fight on...
Troubled past haunts Mexico oil company at center of Citi scandal
NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The company at the center of an alleged fraud that forced Citigroup Inc to cut its 2013 profit won billions of dollars in contracts from...
Chevron’s U.S. win in Ecuador case looms over cases elsewhere
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ecuadorean villagers who are trying to get billions of dollars from Chevron Corp for pollution in the Amazon jungle are ready to refocus their fight on...
Troubled past haunts Mexico oil company at center of Citi scandal
NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The company at the center of an alleged fraud that forced Citigroup Inc to cut its 2013 profit won billions of dollars in contracts from...
Exclusive: Duo tracks double-dipping in U.S. oil firms’ toxic tank cleanup
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A pioneer in cleaning up toxic messes, Thomas Schruben long suspected major oil companies of being paid twice for dealing with leaks from underground fuel storage...
Arkansas homeowners settle suit charging fracking wastewater caused quakes
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five Arkansas residents who sued two oil companies claiming wastewater disposal wells from fracking caused earthquakes that damaged their homes settled with the companies for an...