Source: https://insideclimatenews.org/, August 6, 2024 By: Martha Pskowski A dozen people huddle around a 10-foot deep hole in the parched West Texas soil. The group falls silent in anticipation as well-control specialist Hawk Dunlap, in a red jumpsuit, scrapes at the soil with a shovel. A lawyer in a hardhat peers down and trains his […]

Source: https://www.click2houston.com/, July 19, 2024 By: Gage Goulding & Rayan Graham A massive oil sheen is stretching for miles along the Galveston coast in the Gulf of Mexico. The sheen is coming from an offshore drilling platform 12 miles from the sandy beaches of the Bolivar Peninsula, near Crystal Beach. Read more.

Source: https://apnews.com/, May 21, 2024 A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million in connection with two explosions that injured workers and caused the evacuation of thousands, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. The explosions at a TPC Group plant in the […]

Source: https://www.northcentralpa.com/, January 3, 2024  Following an investigation of chemical contamination that has reportedly spread across three townships in Greene County, Pa., the PA Department of Environmental Protection has determined a shale gas operator is responsible. According to a report in the PA Environment Digest, the DEP posted an inspection report for the Mohr A and […]

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, November 8, 2023 By: Sara Cardine Chevron will pay Orange County $1.25 million for removing gallons of oil that leaked from a ruptured pipeline into the Talbert Channel in Huntington Beach last year, according to a settlement agreement reached Tuesday. A contractor crew working for the county’s Department of Public Works was enhancing […]

Source: https://whitmanwire.com/, October 19, 2023 By: Natalie Comerford and Coden Stark The Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center evacuated on Sept. 14 due to a mysterious chemical odor in their basement, and remained closed for almost a month. Since then, the City of Walla Walla, the Washington Department of Ecology and a privately contracted company, Clean Harbors Environmental […]

“Source: https://www.sltrib.com/, October 10, 2023 By: Anastasia Hufham A hiker traveling last month in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument expected scenic red-rock views but instead found pools of crude oil. Mechanical and electrical failures at a facility in Dixie National Forest owned by Citation Oil & Gas Corp. resulted in the release of 163 barrels of […]

Source: Distinguished Programs A waste-oil tank at a bulk storage facility was overfilled during a routine transfer spilling waste oil into the secondary containment system. A valve in the  secondary containment system was left open during a recent clean-out, and the waste oil was released into the neighboring river. The spill impacted a marina,  river, […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, August 14, 2023 The United States District Court (M.D. Florida) (“Court”) addressed in a June 23rd Order an insurance coverage issue involving a petroleum release from an underground storage tank (“UST”). See L. Squared Industries, Inc. v. Nautilus Insurance Company, No. 3:21-CV-1104-BJD-PDB, 2023 WL 4227568, at *2 (M.D. Fla. June 23, 2023). The issue considered […]

Source: Distinguished Programs A lending institution wanted to offer a loan to refinance a 45-story multifamily residential tower in New York. The boilers in the basement had historically been fueled by heating oil that was stored on-site in several large USTs buried beneath the basement floor. The USTs were no longer in use and had  […]

Source: https://www.dcnewsnow.com/, June 20, 2023 By: Mikayla Newton An oil spill was reported on Dec. 7, 2021 in Frederick County, Md. Maryland is now suing the two companies responsible for more than 7,000 gallons of oil that was spilled. The Maryland Department of the Environment and the State’s Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit […]

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/, May 16, 2022 By: David Kroman For 49 years, Jeff Margolis and his late wife, Amy, ran Everybody’s Store, a gas station and sandwich stop in this community east of Bellingham. They never made much money on the shop, tucked into the Nooksack Valley below Mount Baker, but tended the front counter out […]