Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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29/03/2013 | Exxon Mobil | 'Mayflower' oil spill occurs after pipeline raptures; release of 3,000 barrels of oil; homes evacuated; violation of federal Clean Water Act and state environmental laws - $5.07 million. | Mayflower, Arkansas, United States | Reuters | Pollution | |
15/08/2012 | (Exxon Mobil) | Energy Companies failure to disclose wells obscures fracking environmental hazards. | United States | Bloomberg | Pollution | |
21/08/2011 | (Exxon Mobil) | San Francisco Judge orders oil companies to clean up fuel additive MTBE contamination caused by leaking storage tanks. | CA, United States | SFGATE | Pollution | |
02/07/2011 | Exxon Mobil | 'Yellowstone River' oil spill occurs after pipeline raptures; estimated 1000 barrels of oil leak into river; Oil executives criticised for conflicting accounts of breach and regulators accused of failing to ensure safe operation. | Yellowstone River, MT, United States | The Guardian | Fraud, Negligence, Pollution | |
14/07/2010 | (Exxon Mobil) | Twenty-six parties ordered to cleanup contaminated soil from yearlong (1961 - 1980) disposal of hazardous substances. Costs - $2.2 million. | Coventry, RI, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
07/03/2006 - 02/03/2006 | BP (Beyond Petroleum) (Field co-owned by Exxon Mobil) | 'Prudhoe Bay' five-day oil spill caused by knowing neglect of corroding pipelines; around one million oil liters leaked. | Prudhoe Bay, AK, United States | BBC | Negligence, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
31/12/2005 - 01/01/2005 | Exxon Mobil | Toxics Release Inventory counted 1.1 million pounds toxic waste released on environment by Torrance refinery. | Los Angeles County, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
16/02/2005 | (Exxon Mobil) | Service stations operating in 1990s released large amounts of gasoline containing MTBE - potential carcinogen - nearby water wells, significantly contributing to Charnock Sub-basin drinking water problem. Replacing Santa Monica drinking water $3 million/year & $1.5 million investigation costs & cleanup costs over $200 million. | Santa Monica, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency, (2) | Negligence, Pollution | |
21/01/2005 | (Exxon Mobil) | 300 Russian Islanders protest against oil companies for depletion of fish stocks, and destroyed forests and pastures allegedly caused by Sakhalin platform. | Sakhalin, Russia | Planet Ark - Reuters | Pollution | |
12/03/2003 | (Exxon Mobil) | Companies ordered to clean up Santa Fe Springs superfund site from year-long dumping of metal wastes, PAHs and VOCs. Cleanup costs - $9.08 million. | CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
19/08/1999 | (Exxon Mobil) | Group of 39 companies deemed responsible for disposing hazardous waste at Superfund site; 18,500 cubic yards of soil contaminated by VOCs, PCBs and lead. Cleanup settlement - $23 million. | Piscataway, NJ, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
31/12/1989 - 01/01/1973 | (Exxon Mobil) | 49 private and public entities sent millions of pounds of hazardous waste in Casmalia disposal facility causing 'longstanding environmental problems'. Cleanup costs - over $100 million. | Santa Maria, CA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution | |
24/03/1989 | Exxon Mobil | 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill occurs after oil tanker is struck by reef; considered the most devastating human-caused environmental disaster; leak of 11 million US galons of oil; immense wildlife death toll; local fishing industry irreparably damaged; Exxon widely criticized for its slow clean-up response - $500 million in punitive damages. | Prince William Sound, Valdez-Cordova, AK, United States | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, US Environmental Protection Agency | Habitat Extinction, Negligence, Pollution |