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13 Jan 2025, 8:27 am by Ashley Belanger
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to decide whether to block lawsuits that Honolulu filed to seek billions in damages from oil and gas companies over allegedly deceptive marketing campaigns that hid the effects of climate change. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 7:21 am by Maritime Law Staff
House has not yet reached an agreement on a bill to allocate oil spill fines to those areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster of April, 10, 2010. [read post]
25 May 2010, 1:44 pm by Chris Broussard
This month’s discussion is devoted to the collective response to the Deepwater Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - to discuss strategies as we mobilize, organize and promote training opportunities for volunteers and paid workers who wish to join the efforts to save our coastal communities, wetlands, and way of life. [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 3:27 am
Professor Hamilton believes that fundamentals generally drive the price of oil, so he notes the trendy belief that speculators in the oil markets drove last year's price hike: What about attributing the run-up in oil prices almost to $80 a barrel, and now the latest drop back near $50, entirely to speculation, without any reference to fundamentals? [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 9:00 pm
For some perspective, Special Report No. 183, “Oil Industry Taxes: A Cash Cow for Government,” shows us that in 2008 (the most recent year included) the U.S. oil industry collectively paid over $91.5 billion in domestic taxes. [read post]
6 May 2010, 2:22 pm by The LBN Team
The oil industry, like the financial industry, asked the citizens that populate the Gulf coast to trust them with our most valuable resource and they breached that trust. [read post]
6 May 2010, 2:22 pm by The LBN Team
The source of the spill is still spewing upwards of 50 million gallons of oil a day into the spawning grounds of shrimp, snapper and oysters in areas of the Gulf waters. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 8:20 am by Larisa Vaysman
  The lessee-oil company pays for exclusive oil and gas rights to the leased land, but only for a fixed term. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 2:59 am
An oil spill spanning over 3,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, left behind after an oil rig exploded and sank last week, is not threatening to compromise the safety of seafood from the water, according to experts. [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 8:23 am by Slappey & Sadd, LLC
ExxonMobil Corp. has been fined $165,000 by federal regulators for safety violations over an explosion that occurred in 2016 at a large oil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 5:00 pm
Posted by Derek Brandt March 21, 2012 Yesterday our law firm filed suit on behalf of the Village of Roxana against Shell Oil Company, ConocoPhillips, and WRB Refining LP, alleging toxins such as benzene were released into the surrounding residential area, polluting the groundwater, land and air of the small community of less than 2,000 residents. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 5:00 pm
Posted by Derek Brandt March 21, 2012 Yesterday our law firm filed suit on behalf of the Village of Roxana against Shell Oil Company, ConocoPhillips, and WRB Refining LP, alleging toxins such as benzene were released into the surrounding residential area, polluting the groundwater, land and air of the small community of less than 2,000 residents. [read post]