Scientists and environmental groups are raising questions about 5,000 gallons per day estimate. They also criticize BP for refusing to use scientific techniques that would give a more precise figure. BP has repeatedly claimed that measuring the plume of oil gushing from the broken well would be impossible. The issue…
An Oklahoma City jury has ordered Allergan Inc., the maker of Botox Cosmetic, to pay $15 million to a local doctor who claimed she suffered botulism poisoning from the product. Dr. Sharla Helton claimed in her lawsuit that the illness she suffered as a result of Botox injections in 2006…
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Baxter Healthcare Services were ordered to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages to a Nevada man who contracted Hepatitis C during an outbreak two years ago. The Clark County District Court jury in Nevada ordered Teva to pay $356 million and Baxter to pay…
Atmos Energy failed to meet minimum safety regulations in connection with a home explosion in Mesquite, according to a state investigation. The Texas Railroad Commission investigation found that Atmos should phase out the type of steel natural gas lines used in the area. The company has decided to replace each…
After BP’s Texas City, Tex., refinery blew up in 2005, killing 15 workers, the company promised to fix the safety issues that caused the blast. In 2006 a oil pipeline ruptured and spilled 200,000 gallons of crude oil over Alaska’s North Slope, the oil giant once again vowed to fix…
The effort to contain the oil spill that has poured millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico encountered a setback, according to officials. This means that oil will continue gushing into the ocean for possibly months. Workers earlier maneuvered a containment dome over the remaining leaks…
Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico came ashore on a chain of islands off the Louisiana coast today as the Obama administration accused BP Plc and its agents of making “very major mistakes” in the negligent drilling operation. BP engineers were to lower a huge metal…
In the worst case, the disaster could grow at 12 times the rate of current estimates, BP officials say at a Capitol Hill briefing. BP officials told congressional representatives that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could grow at a rate more than 10 times current estimates in a worst-case…
With each day that the leaking oil well a mile below the surface remains uncapped, scientists and energy industry observers are imagining outcomes that range from bad to worse to worst, with some forecasting a calamity of historic proportions. Executives from oil giant BP and other energy companies, meanwhile, shared…
Where the world runs out of road and into bayou, and all that is left beyond is the Gulf of Mexico, dozens of docked shrimp boats bob in place. They should be out right now, green nets trawling for cash in crustaceans. Among these many boats — actually, between the…