The settlement fund for the Greenpoint oil spill has received 96 proposals for improving the environment in Greenpoint, The New York Times reported. The fund has $19,500,000 to give away. The projects ...
Erin Brokovich is turning her sights on Brooklyn. More specifically, the environmental crusader who helped win a $333 million settlement for poisoned residents of Hinkley, CA is working with the law ...
New York's attorney general is planning to sue ExxonMobil and four other companies over the Greenpoint oil spill.Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is taking the action because of how long it's taken to clean up the ...
State officials say oil spill cleanup efforts under Greenpoint are seriously picking up speed. “In terms of oil recovery, we’re more than a third of the way there,” state Department of Environmental ...
NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve complaints over its handling of a huge underground oil spill in New York City. The settlement with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ...
Dozens of Greenpoint residents showed up Wednesday night to hear what state officials are doing about the dangerous gases in the air from a decades-old oil spill. Recent tests revealed high ...