Environmental Accidents & Disasters

When John Fogerty musically asked "Who'll Stop the Rain?" 40 years ago, he was pondering the world's disquiet. But given the economic and insured damage from natural catastrophes that deluged the U.S. and...

Tokyo, Jan 26, 2012 - (JCN) - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Musashino Co. have jointly developed the world's first portable liquid-level gauge for vessel fuel tanks, which reduces workload needed to measure a...

More than a year after the federal drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico swayed many offshore service boat operators to send their fleets to more lucrative waters, those that stayed behind say...

HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited ("Aspen") (NYSE: AHL) today announces an initial estimate of losses of $54 million, net of applicable reinsurance, reinstatement premiums and tax, for the flooding in Thailand....

WASHINGTON - President Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make...

ALAMINOS CANYON BLOCK 857, Gulf of Mexico - Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean s surface than...

In the past four months, New Orleans has added 1,359 hotel rooms with the reopening of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans in October and the opening of the Saint Hotel on Jan. 4....

Disaster Relief Company Generated Revenue of $5 Million in 2011 POST FALLS, Idaho -- Command Center, Inc. (OTCQB:CCNI) (http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/CCNI/quote), a national provider of on-demand and temporary staffing solutions, today announced it has acquired...

LeBlanc is Only Louisiana Environmental Plaintiffs' Attorney Selected for Honor BATON ROUGE, La. -- Burton LeBlanc, the head of Baron and Budd's Baton Rouge office, is one of only six environmental attorneys selected...

HOUSTON (ICIS)--For 2012, the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) plans to complete an investigation into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast, update its strategic plan and open an office in...

HEADNOTE BRAZIL IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Chevron banned from further Brazilian drilling Aiming to shield the economy from the potential fallout of Europe's debt crisis, the Brazilian government took fiscal policy steps that include...

HEADNOTE Environmental risk insurers are offering more sophisticated solutions and a broader range of coverage amounts. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Moerdijk, Netherlands, in January 2011....

Law Review Highlights: The environmental and financial impacts of the 2010 BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are still being assessed and will continue to be evaluated for...

IN the context of environmental accidents, such as the deep-water drilling oil spill in the Gulf, corporations and individuals face exposure to prosecution under federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Water Act (CWA),...

OVER THE COURSE of his career, Craig Maritn has proven that, above all else, he is a great communicator. As the new CEO of the Ogilvy specialty shop, Feinstein Kean Healthcare, he sees...

BP -- Summary BP announced in July 2010 that it would be selling its upstream assets in Pakistan as part of a divestment programme aimed at raising funds to meet the costs of...

Nineteen billion-dollar companies - four of them on the Fortune 500 list - have sited their corporate headquarters in Tampa Bay. And no wonder. As 14th largest consumer market in the U.S., this...

The tug-of-war between federal regulators and the oil and gas industry over the pace of drilling permits dominated the year in energy as operators pushed to get back to work in the Gulf...

Back when Benedict's Plantation was at its busiest with catering work for movie productions, its offsite kitchen was on the set of a film that featured a difficult-to-please Jean-Claude Van Damme. The actor...