For Exxon Mobil CEO, Fracking’s Fine, Just Not In His Backyard
Feb 26, 2014 The contentious practice of hydraulic fracturing -- commonly referred to as "fracking," thus offering opponents a handy resemblance to a popular expletive -- isn't something Exxon Mobil's head honcho, Rex Tillerson, has opposed.
The Need to Punish Corporate Criminals
Aug 1, 2013 Halliburton's recent "punishment" after admitting that it destroyed evidence related to the 2010 BP oil spill is the very reason The Hill's Ronald Goldfarb says that the "legal fiction that corporations are entities that are distinct from the parties running them" makes for terrible public policy.
Halliburton Admits Destroying Deepwater Horizon Evidence
Jul 26, 2013 The American contractor that worked for BP on the Gulf of Mexico oil rig announced Thursday that it would plead guilty to destroying evidence relating to the 2010 explosion that sparked the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill
Nov 30, 2012 When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's "lack of business integrity" and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. The sanction, however, has been years in the making.
The Public Cost of BP’s ‘Pathetic’ Fine
Nov 17, 2012 BP’s record settlement of $4.5 billion for damages caused by the explosion and spill of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010 is the largest criminal fine in U.S. history, but at a fifth of the company's 2011 profits, to be paid over a span of five years, it amounts to a "pathetic" slap on the wrist, says Public Citizen’s Tyler Slocum.
‘Pro-Life’ Lawmaker Supported Ex-Wife’s Abortions, New Karl Rove Election Theories, and More
Nov 16, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including the latest conspiracy theory involving President Obama and a BP oil settlement.
U.S. Tried to Downplay Toll on Wildlife in Gulf
Oct 24, 2012 Photographs of a dead sperm whale and a cache of emails obtained by Greenpeace show how officials in the Obama administration attempted to suppress knowledge of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout's impact on wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico.
A Punishment BP Can’t Pay Off
Apr 20, 2012 Two years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, no one has been held accountable.
A Tough-Oil World
Mar 14, 2012 The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump.
Judge Puts Deepwater Horizon Trial on Hold
Feb 27, 2012 U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who will ultimately put a price tag on the worst oil spill in American history if the many lawsuits against BP go to trial, has given the oil giant and its many, many plaintiffs another week to reach a settlement.
