Dutch Trafigura settles toxic waste case
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A Dutch-based oil trading company paid $197 million to secure the release of three executives from an Ivory Coast prison and settle claims that it dumped toxic waste that killed at least 10 people in the West African nation.
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By Mitchell Freedman, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 7--A $1.5-million settlement has been reached by 29 businesses and government entities with the New York State attorney general's office over the cost of cleanup at the old North Sea landfill in Southampton Town.
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The Coca-Cola Co. (KO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) reached an agreement with the European Commission on Tuesday to settle a five-year antitrust case that
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Guidant, the maker of implanted heart devices, settled a fraud suit over its recalled defibrillator for an undisclosed amount.
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Royal Dutch/Shell has agreed to pay $120 million to settle fraud charges with the S.E.C. involving overstated oil reserves, the U.S. securities regulator said today.
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LONDON Royal Dutch/Shell Group agreed Tuesday to settlements with US and British regulators that will cost the oil company $150.7 million.
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The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to settle consumer fraud charges by posting online both negative and positive results from its clinical drug trials, a practice that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said should have been made
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Description: Royal Dutch/Shell agrees to pay more than $150 million to settle fraud charges in the United States and Britain. The company was accused of overstating its proven oil and gas reserves by more than 20 percent.
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BREMEN, Germany, Sep 21 (IPS) - The Panamanian flagged ship Probo Koala unloaded  more than 550 tonnes of toxic waste at Abidjan port in C- te  d'Ivoire a month back. Emissions from that toxic waste have  killed seven people and poisoned thousands.
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HOUSTON - BP PLC has agreed to settle claims by four victims of an explosion in 2005 at its Texas refinery, ending the first trial over the disaster. The terms weren't disclosed.
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Bayer AG&#39;s US unit agreed to plead guilty and pay a $33 million fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of chemicals used to make plastic grocery bags, shoe soles and
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Citgo Petroleum Corp. will pay a $3.6 million fine in a settlement with the US Justice Department and also spend $320 million to cut air pollution from six of its refineries, the government said on Wednesday.
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The DuPont Co. has agreed to pay up to $340 million to settle a lawsuit that it contaminated water supplies in West Virginia and Ohio with a chemical used to make Teflon, one of its best-known brands.
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Pfizer, the world&#39;s largest drug maker, agreed Friday to pay $430 million to resolve personal-injury claims against a subsidiary that sold products containing asbestos in the 1970s.
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_ The state Attorney General&#39;s Office has settled its lawsuit against Purdue Pharma that accused the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin in West Virginia.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 25 -- US and UK regulators Tuesday confirmed a $150 million settlement with Royal Dutch/Shell Group that the company first disclosed last month.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Small business supports the Environmental Protection Agency's recent reform of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) rule, according to testimony today by Chief Counsel for Advocacy Thomas M. Sullivan.