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  • US reaches $5.15 billion environmental settlement

    04/03/2014 1:18:36 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Apr. 3, 2014 3:58 PM EDT | Eric Tucker and Dina Cappiello
    The federal government on Thursday reached a $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the largest ever for environmental contamination, to settle claims related to the cleanup of thousands of sites tainted with hazardous chemicals for decades. The bulk of the money—$4.4 billion—will pay for environmental cleanup and be used to settle claims stemming from the legacy contamination. …
  • Diplomatic broadside

    09/03/2006 1:04:16 PM PDT · by Kurt_Hectic · 1 replies · 449+ views
    www.aftenposten.no ^ | 01 Sep 2006, 15:41 | Næringsliv24's Norwegian reporter Lars Magne Sunnanå Aftenposten English Web Desk Jonathan Tisdall
    The US ambassador to Norway gave a speech full of polite but very firm criticism of the Norwegian oil fund's blacklisting of American companies. US ambassador to Norway Benson K. Whitney spoke to the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) on Friday, and made it clear that shared core values "like fairness, transparency, justice, dialogue, ethics" gave way to "disappointment and surprise" due to the failure of Norway to live up these ideals when investing its petroleum riches. "It's one thing for an individual Norwegian to get up one morning, read the paper, decide they don't like a company for...