BP denies misleading Texas environmental regulator
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Oil giant BP Plc has denied misleading a  U.S. environmental regulator about having installed safety  equipment at its Texas City refinery that investigators believe  would have reduced the likelihood of a fatal explosion last  year.
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Trafigura, a company that had been accused of illegally dumping petrochemical waste, said the payment was not an admission of fault.
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BP avoids battering as poor results are better than Hayward's bleak warning suggests and market looks beyond 2007.
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The US Congress hears that BP's failure to maintain oil pipelines at the largest US oil field was "unacceptable".
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PARIS -- Allegations that French companies illicitly reaped financial benefits from the UN oil-for-food program are ''inaccurate&quot; and unsubstantiated, France said yesterday in a sharp response to a US arms inspector's report.
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Texans weary of high electric bills and environmentalists who fought TXU Corp.'s plans for more coal-fired power plants offered only muted criticism Monday of the proposed takeover of the state's largest electric utility.
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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A panel has rejected allegations that a Purdue University nuclear engineer interfered with efforts to verify his claims of producing "tabletop fusion."
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Texas officials argue that a new rule to disclose the size of their health care obligation to retirees does not apply to their state.
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BP PLC is facing a growing federal investigation into possible criminal environmental and safety violations at its Texas refinery where a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers, lawyers suing the firm said.
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The acting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner on Monday disputed a published report that said agency officials knew before Oct. 5 that British health authorities might suspend
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The former head of pipeline-corrosion monitoring for BP in Alaska refused to testify under oath Thursday as outraged lawmakers grilled company officials over the causes of a massive oil spill earlier this year.
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Alaska Governor Frank  Murkowski on Wednesday suggested that BP Plc misled the state  with satisfactory maintenance reports and launched an  investigation into the oil giant's handling of its pipeline  corrosion.
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Attorneys for those injured in the deadly 2005 explosion at BP Plc.'s  giant Texas refinery can question company Chief Executive John Browne, a Texas appeals court said in an opinion issued on Friday.
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Investigators in the U.S. Congress  have found "significant problems" with the way BP Plc.  maintained its Prudhoe Bay facility in Alaska, sources close to  the inquiry said, setting the stage for a heated hearing on  Thursday into corrosion that threatened to shut down the  biggest U.S. oil field.
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Exxon Mobil Corp.  said Tuesday it had not yet decided whether it will appeal a decision by Alaska's natural resources commissioner that could wrest control of a Alaska North Slope oilfield from the company.
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The owner and operators of the tanker involved in South Korea's worst oil spill denied any wrongdoing Thursday and offered sympathy to locals affected by the environmental fallout.