environmental health

April 18, 2013 - When Gulf Coast activists attended BP's annual meeting last week to express concerns about the ongoing environmental health problems related to the 2010 oil disaster, BP chief Bob Dudley assured them it's an "ecosystem that's used to oil."

April 11, 2013 - A satirical TV ad accusing Exxon Mobil of hating children won't be airing after station managers received a cease-and-desist memo from the company, which is under fire for its pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark.

April 11, 2013 - Yudith Nieto and Emmanuel Guajardo discuss their experiences organizing a Houston neighborhood that's been sickened by pollution from a Valero refinery slated to receive dirty Canadian tar sands oil via the Keystone XL pipeline.

April 4, 2013 - An effort to kill North Carolina's renewable energy law is meeting resistance from a politically powerful rural constituency.

January 29, 2013 - In New Orleans today, a federal judge approved a deal allowing BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges related to the Gulf disaster in exchange for a $4 billion fine, probation and monitoring. Some of the company's victims objected to the deal including Cherri Foytlin, who explained her reasons in this letter to the judge.

January 16, 2013 - Over five months since the Texas Brine sinkhole first appeared over the Napoleonville Salt Dome, residents of Louisiana's Bayou Corne struggle to be heard by Gov. Bobby Jindal -- and look to Washington for help.

January 14, 2013 - The company is seeking to reduce its civil liabilities under the Clean Water Act by excluding the oil it salvaged from the total amount spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Meanwhile, the court has approved a settlement for medical claims related to the spilled oil and dispersants used to break up the slick.