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The company behind a pipeline leak this month near Chicago estimates it will cost up to $60 million to clean up the area where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilled.
Enbridge Energy Partners LP said Wednesday its estimate of $40 million to $60 million doesn’t include potential penalties. It said insurance money should reduce the total charge for the cleanup to $10 million to $15 million. Get the full story »
Enbridge Inc. says it has restarted a pipeline that spilled oil in the Chicago area last week. Get the full story »
The owners of Oyster Creek nuclear power plant say they’ll begin pumping water contaminated by radioactive tritium out of the ground to prevent any possible contamination of drinking water supplies.
Exelon Corp. and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced the plan after a meeting Monday in Trenton. The work is to begin this week.
A local bank headquarters and branch has been shut down due to mold.
Foster Bank at 5225 N. Kedzie Ave. was closed Friday and will likely remain shuttered for about two months while mold is eradicated, a bank spokesman confirmed Monday. Get the full story »
Whole Foods Market Inc. is trying to clear some murky waters for seafood shoppers.
The grocery chain on Monday launched a new color-coded rating program — with the help of Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute — that measures the environmental impact of its wild-caught seafood. Get the full story »
Consumers will get a newly detailed look at exactly what’s in common household cleansers, as regulators plan to start enforcing a nearly 40-year-old state law that would force manufacturers to reveal their products’ contents.
The move comes amid growing scrutiny of the chemicals that make up consumer goods. Possibly the only measures of their kind in the country, the 1971 New York law and related regulations call for manufacturers to provide ingredient lists and research on the products’ health and environmental effects.
An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill.
From WBBM Radio | Ford is announcing today that its plant on Chicago’s far South Side will begin making the new Police Interceptor utility vehicle, designed to have at least 20 percent better fuel economy than the current Crown Victoria police vehicle.
California’s Senate has voted down a measure that would have banned plastic bags at grocery stores. The new ban was rejected by a 21 to 14 vote late Tuesday. The ban would have included grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores. Get the full story »
Deere & Co. has quietly dropped out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer of farm machinery, opted to leave the U.S. Climate Action Partnership in May because the group’s legislative strategy “no longer served as a foundation for moving forward” with climate change regulation, Ken Golden, a spokesman for the company said Tuesday. Get the full story »
Coffee chain Starbucks plans to introduce the exotically-named Galapagos San Cristobal, the first in its new Reserve line, next Monday at 700 select stores. These coffees are characterized by “high quality, small quantity and unique stories,” said Anthony Carroll, Starbucks’ manager of green coffee quality. He flew in to Chicago Tuesday to offer an advanced taste of the special coffee at a Starbucks in the Loop.
BP said Monday it has made an initial deposit of $3 billion into a $20 billion fund to pay for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the oil company finalized negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice. Get the full story »
BP said Friday it might someday drill again into the same lucrative undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons of crude, wrecked livelihoods and fouled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. “There’s lots of oil and gas here,” Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing. “We’re going to have to think about what to do with that at some point.”
Shares in BP rose 1.2 percent in London on Friday, taking their bounce since the near 14-year low in June to 45 percent, lifted by the group’s latest progress in plugging the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Get the full story »
The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday that it has dropped its long-running plans to build a futuristic power plant in eastern Illinois and will instead use the site for the storage of carbon dioxide produced by another Illinois power plant. The so-called FutureGen project originally was to include an experimental coal-fired power plant near Mattoon. Carbon dioxide from burning the coal would have been stored underground.
