Exxon and BP Plead Guilty to Environmental Crimes

Exxon

Exxon is Indicted by U.S. Grand Jury in Spill at Valdez
By John H. Cushman, Jr., The New York Times, February 28, 1990

Exxon to Pay $100 Million Fine and Plead Guilty in Valdez Spill
By Keith Schneider, The New York Times, March 13, 1991

Exxon to Pay Record One Billion Dollars in Criminal Fines and Civil Damages in Connection with Alaskan Oil Spill
U.S. Department of Justice press release dated March 13, 1991

Judge Accepts Exxon Pact, Ending Suits on Valdez Spill
The New York Times, October 8, 1991

Alaska Struggles to Recover, 10 Years After Exxon Valdez
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, March 20, 1999

Exxon Oil Spill’s Cleanup Crews Share Years of Illness
By Kim MurphyThe Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2001

Exxon Valdez case timeline
Anchorage Daily News, June 25, 2008

Supreme Court cuts $2.5 billion penalty in Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press June 25, 2008

Exxon Valdez oil spill payout ‘a knife in the gut’
By Christopher Maag, TheAge.Com (Australia) June 27, 2008

 

BP

BP fined $20 million for pipeline corrosion
By Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News, October 26, 2007

Oil company BP admits environmental crime
By Jeannette J. Lee, Associated Press, dateline Anchorage, Alaska, November 30, 2007

BP to plead guilty to environmental crimes in Alaska
By Jeannette J. Lee, Associated Press, dateline Anchorage, Alaska, November 29, 2007

BP Set To Commit ‘The Biggest Environmental Crime in History’
By Cahal Milmo, Common Dreams News Center, December 10, 2007

BP pleads guilty to environmental crime
The Associated Press, dateline Anchorage, Alaska, November 29, 2007

BP Exploration (Alaska) Sentenced for Environmental Crime
Court Orders $500,000 Fine and Establishment of Nationwide Environmental Management System

U.S. Department of Justice press release, dated February 1, 2000