by Adam Mahoney | Dec 20, 2025 | Contamination, disaster, disaster relief, doj, EPA, explosion, Flint, forever chemicals, Louisiana, News, Oil, oil accidents, oil spills, PFAS, Pollution, Racial Justice, Recovery Aid, Trump Administration, Water, Water Contamination, Wildlife
Four months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing a dense black sludge that drifted across homes, farms, and waterways as far as 50 miles away. Since then, the U.S. Department of Justice and Louisiana environmental regulators have filed a sweeping lawsuit against Smitty’s Supply, the company that ran the facility storing oil and vehicle lubricants.
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by Katie Surma | Dec 12, 2025 | Amazon Rainforest, Chevron, Contamination, Ecuador, Fossil Fuels, Indigenous Peoples, Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Investor-State Dispute Settlement System, Investor-State Dispute Settlements, ISDS, News, Oil and Gas Drilling, Oil and Gas Industry, oil spills, Pollution, Texaco
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Over a quarter century in the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) perpetrated an ecological disaster: It dumped 3.2 million gallons of toxic waste, spilled 17 million gallons of crude oil and flared…
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