Citgo Reaches $323 Million Emissions  Settlement
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Citgo Petroleum Corp. will install $320 million in pollution controls in six refineries and pay $3.6 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging the company with violating the Clean Air Act, the Justice Department announced yesterday.
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Oil major BP  on Thursday  agreed to pay $373 million to settle U.S. charges stemming from  a deadly Texas refinery explosion, an Alaska oil spill and  allegations it manipulated the propane market.
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By Frank Norton, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 14--More than $1.3 million from a legal settlement with a pork producer will pay to clean agricultural waste and protect rivers and wildlife in Eastern North Carolina, the state Attorney General's Office announced Tuesday.
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Global energy giant BP PLC agreed Thursday to pay $373 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it overcharged U.S. propane consumers by millions of dollars and ignored environmental warnings that resulted in an Alaska oil spill and a deadly explosion in Texas.
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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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Several defendants being sued by relatives of the 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire have tentatively agreed to a $13.5 million settlement, a lawyer for one family in the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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DuPont agreed to a settlement Thursday that could be worth more than $340 million to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging the chemical giant contaminated a West Virginia community's water supply with a key ingredient used in its Teflon products.
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WASHINGTON -- Financial-services giant Citigroup Inc. will pay $250,000 to settle allegations it used misleading sales material on hedge funds, the National Association of Securities Dealers said yesterday.
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BP Plc and subsidiaries have agreed to pay $373 million in fines and restitution for environmental violations and fraud charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES - California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming - a move that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.    Under the regulations, the auto industry must cut exhaust from cars and light trucks by 25 percent and from larger trucks and sport utility vehicles by 18 percent...
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Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc.   said on Thursday it has agreed to pay $38.1 billion, or $101 per common share, for Canadian aluminum company Alcan Ltd. .
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The oil company agreed to pay $373 million in fines and restitution to end investigations into whether it manipulated energy markets and violated environmental laws, the Justice Department said.
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California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world&#39;s most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming - a decision that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.
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Several defendants being sued by relatives of the 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire have tentatively agreed to a $13.5 million settlement.
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By TERRY DICKSON  BRUNSWICK -- Glynn County will receive $25 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against the owners of the former LCP Chemicals-Georgia Superfund site in Brunswick.  The county had sued Allied Signal Inc., Honeywell International and Allied Chemical Corp.
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California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming &#151; a decision that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.
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A radio station owner who promoted a concert featuring pyrotechnics that started a deadly nightclub fire reached a tentative $22 million settlement with survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Wednesday.