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March 1, 2021
The United States filed a complaint on Friday in the Louisiana Middle District Court seeking for the court to require Metairie Energy Company Inc., and its owner and operator, Bernard Robichaux, to pay over $1.3 million to cover clean-up costs for an August 2016 spill.
Reportedly, the oil spill occurred from the defendants’ Choctaw Bayou Oil and Gas Field which is located next to the Port Allen Lock in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The federal government paid to clean up the oil spill using funds from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which is provided for under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) and is now seeking repayment from the company under the same Act.
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About 215 gallons of oil from an unknown source washed ashore at Broadkill Beach in Delaware in October 2020. Julie McCall was surveying Beach Plum Island when she saw blobs of oil. (Courtesy of Julie McCall)
Crystal Stokowski just wants to know one thing: Who spilled the oil along Broadkill Beach?
A surfer and former resident of Oahu, Stokowski is a member of the Surfrider Foundation she and her family visit the beach almost daily, even during the off-season. But last fall, an oil spill disrupted that.
“You could smell and see the oil wash up,” she wrote in an email to WHYY News. “So many surfer friends who still kept going out had heaps of oil stuck to their boards and wetsuits.”
United States: How do you spell relief? C-A-A
After months of partisan bickering and Senate inaction, Congress finally passed another round of COVID-19 relief legislation as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, P.L. 116-260, (“CAA”), which was signed into law on December 27, 2020. We provide a summary of the tax-related CAA provisions and key modifications to the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), before discussing President Biden’s tax agenda for 2021. The CAA’s tax provisions focus primarily on providing economic relief to taxpayers by expanding provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) and renewing extenders. -
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Agriculture
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February 16, 2021
The United States filed a complaint on Friday against Patriot Marine, LLC asking for the Massachusetts District Court to require the company to pay removal costs the plaintiff has already paid to clean up oil released into the waters of Great Harbor, Woods Hole, Massachusetts in January 2018.
According to the complaint, oil spill cleanups can be financed through an Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which was used to clean up this specific spill, but the plaintiff purported that the defendants should still be liable for the costs under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The costs the United States is seeking payment for included “all removal costs, natural resource damages, and interest resulting from the oil spill.” The complaint specified that the United States is not seeking natural resource damages or a judgment relating to the amount of destruction occurring through the oil spill to the environment or natural resources.
An oil company has agreed to pay almost $2 million for spilling crude oil and wastewater at two central Wyoming oilfields. The spills happened between the