New York City Loses Appeal Seeking to Hold Oil Firms Liable for Global Warming Effects April 1, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel and Sebastien Malo A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected New York City’s effort to hold five major oil companies liable to help...
Maryland Capital Sues Oil, Gas Companies Over Climate Change March 1, 2021 Maryland’s capital city has filed a lawsuit against 26 oil and gas companies, saying their industry was taking the environment...
Charleston, South Carolina Sues Big Oil Companies Over Climate Change Costs September 15, 2020 By MICHELLE LIU Charleston is now the first city in the American South to sue major oil companies in an attempt to hold...
Wetlands Loss Suits Against Oil Companies to Stay in Louisiana State Courts August 12, 2020 By Kevin McGill Oil companies facing lawsuits that blame them for coastal wetlands loss in Louisiana have lost an attempt to move the...
Report: 6 Texas Refineries Releasing Cancer-Causing Pollutant Above Federal Threshold February 10, 2020 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune An environmental nonprofit has released an analysis of first-of-its-kind air monitoring data that shows benzene levels at 10 U.S. petroleum...
California Regulators Say Chevron Not Doing Enough to Stop Oil Spill July 16, 2019 California regulators say Chevron has not done enough to stop a massive oil spill that dumped about 800,000 gallons of...
In Reply to Cities’ Liability Suit, One Oil Firm Agrees Humans Causing Climate Change March 26, 2018 By Dan Levine A Chevron attorney said in court last Wednesday that the company supports scientific conclusions that humans are causing climate change,...
Louisiana Politicians Join Suits Blaming Big Oil for Coastal Ruin August 9, 2016 By Cain Burdeau The oil industry has left a big footprint along the Gulf Coast, where a Delaware-sized stretch of Louisiana has disappeared....
Chevron: Report Wrong About California Refinery’s Safety Culture January 27, 2015 Chevron says it agrees with several findings in a federal report about a 2012 fire at one of its refineries...
Chevron Slapped With Violation Notice Over Utah Spill April 16, 2013 State regulators have slapped Chevron with a violation notice over a March fuel spill near a northern Utah bird refuge....