Court faults Total over French oil spill
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A Paris court faulted French oil giant Total SA on Wednesday for "carelessness" over the 1999 sinking of the tanker Erika that caused France's worst-ever oil spill.
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Parts of Germany&#39;s complex can and bottle recycling system violate European Union law, according to a ruling yesterday by the European Court of Justice, the EU&#39;s highest court.
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French oil group Total reported on Wednesday a 3.0-percent fall in net adjusted profit to 12.203 billion euros (14.57 billion dollars), blaming weakness of the dollar.
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A Paris court convicted French oil giant Total SA on Wednesday over the 1999 sinking of an aging and rusting tanker in rough seas, which caused France's worst-ever oil spill.
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A British judge ruled Wednesday that the bulk of a brokerage firm's 240 million pound (&#36;433 million) damages claim against the Financial Times newspaper cannot proceed.
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French police have detained an executive of Total for questioning as part of an investigation into suspected bribes paid to foreign officials by the oil giant, judicial officials said Thursday.
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By Heather Smith  Defense arguments began Wednesday in France's first criminal trial against a company for an oil spill at sea - the 1999 Erika disaster - with lawyers for Total, the largest European oil refiner, telling the court that the public was looking for a "devil" to blame.
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A French court on Monday convicted two construction companies of manslaughter for their roles in a deadly shipyard accident on the world's largest ocean liner, the Queen Mary 2, before it was launched.
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PAULSBORO, NJ The Coast Guard now says that more than 473-thousand gallons of crude oil is missing from the tanker Athos I. And now, investigators believe that significantly more oil was spilled into the Delaware
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French oil giant Total posts a record 12.58bn-euro net profit in 2006, but fourth-quarter earnings slip as oil prices fall.
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The High Court in London has struck out the bulk of a record Â£240m libel damages claim brought against the Financial Times by investment bank Collins Stewart Tullet.
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A jury says Headwaters is entitled to the money because of a breach of contract.
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages to victims of the huge Exxon Valdez oil spill that fouled more than 1,200 miles of Alaskan coastline in 1989.
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The court will consider whether punitive damages can be imposed in the 1989 disaster, an issue worth $2.5 billion to ExxonMobil.
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About 2,000 survivors of India's Bhopal gas disaster protested that the government had failed to pay compensation of 15.03 billion rupees (326.7 million dollars) as ordered by the Supreme Court.
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The suit accuses oil companies and gas stations of overcharging customers at the pump by failing to compensate for changes in gasoline volumes when temperatures rise.
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Exxon argued that given the $3.5 billion it has paid in cleanup costs, fines and settlements after the Valdez spill, the $2.5 billion in punitive damages is beyond normal due process.