oil spill

After five years of negotiations, the State of Montana has finally reached a settlement with ExxonMobile over a busted pipeline that gushed oil into the Yellowstone River back in 2011.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Travel restrictions have been lifted for a northeastern Montana highway where an oil train derailed last week and leaked an estimated 35,000 gallons of oil.

Last night, July 16th, around 6:30 p.m., the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s office received a report that a westbound BNSF train had derailed about 5 miles east of Culbertson close to Highway 2 spilling 35,000 gallons of crude oil.

Federal safety regulators have ordered a pipeline company to make major upgrades to a line that spilled almost 40,000 gallons of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River and fouled a local water supply.

Attorneys for Markus Kaarma have filed a request for a new trial due to prejudicial pre-trial news reports.

Many Montanan politicians are outraged over the oil spill in the Yellowstone river near Glendive, but few have had as personal an experience with the spill as State Senator Matt Rosendale.

Over 50,000 gallons of crude oil have fouled the Yellowstone River due to a pipeline breach upstream from Glendive.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former Halliburton employee has been charged with destroying evidence following BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Representatives of Exxon Mobil Corp. were scheduled to appear at a Wednesday hearing before federal regulators to protest $1.7 million in penalties for a Montana oil spill.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal investigators say Exxon Mobil Corp.'s delayed response to a pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made the spill far worse than it otherwise would have been.