Sentences with phrase «harmed by oil spills»

Animal law includes farm animals, companion animals and even marine animals such as those that have been harmed by oil spills.

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BP has pledged to set aside $ 20 billion to pay damage claims filed by people who will be harmed (physically or financially) from the oil spill.

More than five years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the coast of Alaska, the people who claim they were harmed by the massive oil spill are finally having their day — or rather, their months — in court.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa.

It would also help ensure that companies like BP that are responsible for oil spills are the ones that pay for the harm caused by these oil spills --- not the taxpayers.

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

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«Alaska's northern frontier teems with caribou and other wildlife that would be harmed by road building, well drilling and the oil spills that inevitably follow.

Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300 to 400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

Though more testing is needed to confirm the findings, as well as confirming that the oil originated from the BP spill, if these results hold true it would «confirm our worst fears, that the oil is dispersed by still harming the food web,» according to Jeffery Short from Oceana.

More recent cases include the firm's representation of thousands of clean - up workers and Gulf Coast residents who were physically or financially harmed by BP Oil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histoOil Company's wrongdoing, which resulted in the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil rig, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. histooil spill in U.S. history.