Valero Energy Corporation, in the second quarter of 2009, settled the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (LARWQCB) complaint on violations at the Company’s Wilmington Marine Terminal.
In December 2007, as part of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit…
Progress Energy, Inc. recorded a US$7 million liability at June 30, 2009 (US$10 million at Dec. 31, 2008) for the the Roxboro No. 4 and Mayo Units, based upon the respective estimates for the remaining Clean Smokestacks Act compliance costs.
In…
Duke Energy Corporation plans to spend about US$120 million between 2009 and 2013 (about US$85 million in Ohio and US$35 million in Indiana) to comply with Phase 1 of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized…
Three of Duke Energy Corporation’s subsidiaries (Duke Energy of Ohio, Inc. and Duke Energy of Indiana, Inc., and Cinergy Corp.) are still parties to environmental litigation at the U.S. Federal District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
In November 1999,…
Chevron Corporation is a party to 49 pending lawsuits and claims involving methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), most of which involve numerous other petroleum marketers and refiners, according to the Company’s latest quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange…
Holly Corporation expended US$1.6 million for environmental remediation obligations for the three months ended June 30, 2009, compared with US$400,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2008.
The Company expended US$4.1 million for environmental remediation obligations the six months ended…
Valero Energy Corporation says that its continues settlement discussions on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) claim on violations at the Company’s Corpus Christi West Refinery.
In the second quarter of 2009, the TCEQ issued a notice of enforcement (NOE)…
Progress Energy, Inc.’s subsidiary, Progress Energy Florida, Inc., had a total of US$63 million at June 30, 2009 and US$76 million at Dec. 31, 2008 for emission allowances.
PEF had US$9 million at June 30, 2009 and US$11 million at Dec.…
Litigation arising out of a June 10, 2003 fire in the Residual Oil Supercritical Extraction (ROSE) unit at Murphy Oil Corporation’s Meraux, La., refinery was settled in July 2009 and memorialized via a filing in the U.S. District Court for…
Duke Energy Corporation is still involved in environmental litigation filed by an Inupiat village in Alaska, in a case involving carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
On Feb. 26, 2008, plaintiffs filed suit against Peabody Coal and various oil and power company defendants,…