The first formal citations and fines have started to roll out for the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, 18 months after the explosion that started it all. The Interior Department handed out citations to BP and some of its contractors: The citations, which could lead to millions of dollars in fines, arose from an investigation of [...]

In addition to being the anniversary of the BP oil disaster, yesterday was a deadline of sorts for lawsuits in the incident to be filed. And BP got theirs in under the wire. BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year’s calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner [...]

While Republicans try and figure out the best possible way to dismiss climate science, the EPA has quietly and gradually gone about their business. Today, they finalized rules for oil and gas facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA is under a Supreme Court order to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act, [...]

If there’s one thing Halliburton doesn’t need, it’s a blow to their reputation. They had such a sterling record up to now! Halliburton knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable [...]

Later this morning, CEOs from BP and Transocean as well as executives from Halliburton will testify about the underwater volcano in the Gulf of Mexico which has to date leaked four million gallons of oil. The Senate Natural Resources Committee and the Environment and Public Works Committee will hold hearings today on the matter. Dan [...]

This is change I can believe in. The Army will deny millions of dollars in bonuses to KBR, a division of Halliburton, for contracting work in Iraq that led to deaths: Congress has denied millions of dollars in bonuses to KBR, the military contractor linked to the death of a local soldier in Iraq. Staff [...]