By Wes Helbling Bastrop Daily Enterprise Posted Mar 09, 2012 @ 11:00 AM BASTROP — Documents on file with the Union Parish Clerk of Court indicate the fate of the USA Speedway will be decided by a jury in October. The court date is slated for more than two years after residents initially filed a […]
Environmental
BP Oil Spill: A Tale of Three Plaintiffs
Reuters | Mar 11, 2012, 08.58PM IST VENICE (LOUISIANA): The phone at Joan Strohmeyer’s fishing lodge has been ringing steadily since 2010, but not many of the calls are from customers who want to go fishing. Mainly, they are from lawyers who want her to sue British oil company BP Plc. The tidy, 62-room Lighthouse […]
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts Published: Sunday, March 04, 2012, 3:11 PM Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012, 6:19 AM By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune After reaching a deal Friday night to settle health and economic damage claims by individuals and businesses who were harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP and plaintiff […]
Gulf oil spill settlement reached; BP expected to pay out $7.8 billion
Published: Friday, March 02, 2012, 11:00 PM Updated: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 12:12 AM By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune BP and the private plaintiffs in the massive Gulf oil spill litigation have reached a settlement that BP estimates will cost $7.8 billion. But that is an uncapped amount, an the court still must supervise the […]
Gulf oil spill trial postponed; complex issues involved
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS (USA TODAY) — The stories soon to unfold in a federal courtroom here are just the beginning of one of the biggest environmental cases in U.S. history: the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and its multibillion-dollar impact on the Gulf Coast and its people. With record-breaking […]
BP Oil-Spill Trial Postponed for Settlement Negotiations
By SABRINA CANFIELD NEW ORLEANS (CN) – With billions of dollars at stake, the trial over the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history was pushed back a week as settlement talks between BP and oil spill plaintiffs’ attorneys continued. The trial had been set to open today, Monday, but was rescheduled to begin in a […]
BP faces billions in fines as spill trial nears
By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press – 1 day ago NEW ORLEANS (AP) — On the cusp of trial over the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, phalanxes of lawyers, executives and public officials have spent the waning days in settlement talks. Holed up in small groups inside law offices, war rooms and […]
Drilling Opponents Say Miss. Should Slow Down
By: | Associated Press Published: February 15, 2012 Updated: February 15, 2012 – 10:26 AM » 0 Comments | Post a Comment GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) The Sierra Club and other members of the 12 Miles South Coalition say Mississippi is rushing toward drilling in state waters without addressing concerns about tourism, the environment or economics. […]
Sierra Club maintains majority of citizens oppose oil and gas drilling
Posted: Feb 10, 2012 7:14 PM CST Updated: Feb 11, 2012 11:05 AM CST By Jeff Lawson Video Gallery 85% of people at public meetings oppose gas drilling BILOXI, MS (WLOX) – It would appear a lot of people want don’t want oil and gas drilling rigs in state waters. This week, the Mississippi Development […]
Justices: Kemper County coal plant case is not about coal
by Amy McCullough Published: December 15,2011 KEMPER COUNTY CLEAN COAL PLANT HEARD BEFORE STATE SUPREME COURT JACKSON — Three Mississippi Supreme Court justices say that so far, they can’t find the evidence that state regulators used to justify their decision to allow Mississippi Power Company to build a $2.4 billion clean coal plant under construction […]