New York State sues Exxon over Brooklyn spill
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New York State sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday to force the cleanup of a decades-old, 17 million gallon oil spill in New York City.
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Residents of a northern California town have sued ChevronTexaco Corp  over a refinery shutdown that they claim spewed dangerous gases into the air and caused health problems.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Corp. -- now Exxon Mobil -- for its role in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was excessive.
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Both the city and state of New York sue Merck over Vioxx payments
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The price of New York oil hit a fresh record high of 80.20 dollars a barrel Thursday on trader worries that stormy weather could hamper energy production in the US Gulf of Mexico.
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Citigroup Inc. was sued by Bank of New York Co. over the sale of securities linked to Enron&#39;s creditworthiness, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil suit on October 14 against the worldâs largest insurance broker, Marsh &amp; McLennan, charging the US firm with bid-rigging and other practices
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Exxon Mobil says it is slowly removing contamination from a 1950 oil spill in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but some say the efforts are a bare minimum.
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China&#39;s state-owned oil conglomerate has filed a lawsuit seeking compensation from troubled Russian oil company Yukos for failing to fulfill its export contracts, state media said.
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WASHINGTON: On the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak disaster on Friday a federal lawsuit is pending in New York against Union Carbide and former CEO Warren Anderson for environmental remediation of the factory site.
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The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Exxon Mobil should pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages in connection with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said in Albany Exxon Mobil isn't moving fast enough to clean up a 50-year-old oil spill in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Neighbors of a former IBM   plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it  released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80  years that caused birth defects and cancer.
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NEW YORK - Today, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will announce that he is filing both criminal and civil lawsuits against Marsh &amp; McLennan, the largest US insurance brokerage firm.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Plaintiffs in the long-running case surrounding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a $5 billion punitive fine against Exxon Mobil Corp, a petition filed with highest U.S. court shows.
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California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for denying its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SUVs, challenging the Bush administration's conclusion that states have no business setting emission standards.
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State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued the world&#39;s largest insurance broker and lodged criminal charges against two insurance executives, accusing the brokerage of taking improper payments to steer business to certain companies.