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Deepwater Horizon Owner Transocean Seeks Liability Limit
Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank killing 11 and creating a growing oil spill, today filed a request in Houston federal court to limit its liability in the lawsuits filed against it to about $27 million. U.S. District Judge Keith...
Chemical Assoc. Escalates Attack on Tulane Law Clinic
The Louisiana Chemical Association has enlisted its members, along with Gov. Jindal, the Chamber of Commerce, the state's congressional delegation and others to sanction Tulane University, whose environmental law clinic is targeted in SB 549. Association President Dan...
BP Oil Blowout Preventer: Hydraulic Leak Prior To Explosion
Congressional hearings today elicited evidence that a key safety device known as the blowout preventer used in the BP oil rig in the Gulf had a hydraulic leak and other problems that likely prevented it from working as designed. They also said BP PLC and other...
Polluters Seek To Shut Down Law Clinics
Columnist Jim Gill of the New Orleans Times-Picayune writes, a Senate committee will consider a bill filed on behalf of oil and chemical companies that "want the freedom to poison our air and water without further interference from the Tulane Environmental Law...
Congress Plans Serious Update to Auto Safety Standards
Committees in both the House and the Senate have recently drafted legislation that aims to bring significant changes to auto safety in the U.S. The bill introduced last week by the Senate Commerce Committee is similar to one introduced two weeks ago by the House...
BP Still Trying To Stop Oil Flow As It Nears Louisiana Coast
Crews are working today to lower a 100-ton, 40-foot steel box over the main leak in a well 5,000 feet below the Gulf of Mexico that has been gushing oil since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig 50 miles offshore. The oil rig explosion killed...
Tobacco In Candy-Like Form Can Poison Kids
A new generation of smokeless, flavored tobacco products that look like breath mints or breath-freshening strips may be life-threatening for children who mistake them for candy, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Centers for...
Environmental/Fishing Industry Disaster Feared on Coastline
State and federal government officials, officials with oil giant BP, state biologists, and fishermen are frantically working to try to hold back a massive oil spill that continues to encroach on Louisiana's coastline. The oil has been gushing from a well 5,000 feet...
Federal Officials Will Visit Louisiana Oil Spill Zone Friday
Federal officials will visit the oil spill zone in Louisiana Friday to help coordinate the response to the environmental crises, including top officials from the Homeland Security Department, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Interior Department. U.S. Homeland...
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