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Four Years Later, a $69 Million Reckoning: The Keystone Pipeline Spill Settlement and What It Signals
July 10th, 2026
WASHINGTON COUNTY, KANSAS | July 10, 2026 The Environmental Protection Agency announced on July 10, 2026, a $26 million settlement with South Bow LP, the owner of the Keystone Pipeline, over a 2022 crude oil spill in Washington County, Kansas. South Bow also agreed to invest $40 million in pipeline repairs and infrastructure improvements to prevent future spills, and to pay the State of Kansas an additional $3 million to restore environmental damage caused by the release. The total financial exposure from a single spill event: $69 million, before private civil litigation is factored in. What Happened in December 2022 The pipeline leaked in December 2022 in Washington County, Kansas, northwest of Topeka. It spilled more than 540,000 gallons of oil into Mill Creek and adjacent farmland, making it the largest spill in Keystone Pipeline history....
50,000 Residents, One Faulty Valve: The GKN Aerospace Chemical Incident and Its Expanding Liability Trail
June 19th, 2026
Nearly four weeks after a storage tank failure at a Garden Grove aerospace manufacturing facility triggered a five-day emergency evacuation of roughly 50,000 residents, the liability picture is still taking shape. Criminal investigators remain active, multiple civil lawsuits have been filed, and the U.S. Small Business Administration opened a Business...
Three Spills, One Source Unknown: Hartsfield-Jackson's Fuel Contamination Problem Isn't Going Away
June 11th, 2026
The world's busiest airport has now contaminated the same river three times in five months, and investigators still don't know where the fuel is coming from....
Before the First Drop Flows: The Bridger Pipeline and the Environmental Liability It Carries
July 2nd, 2026
On April 30, President Trump issued a presidential authorization for the construction and maintenance of the Bridger Pipeline, a 645-mile crude oil transmission system designed to transport over one million barrels of tar sands oil daily across Montana. The cross-border permit was approved before a full environmental review was complete, and the project's...
When the Tank Fails: The Longview Paper Mill Disaster and the Liability That Follows
June 3rd, 2026
At approximately 7:15 a.m. on May 26, 2026, a 900,000-gallon white liquor storage tank catastrophically imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. pulp and paper mill in Longview,...
Misidentified and Misunderstood: The West Farmington Crude Oil and Salt Brine Spill
June 25th, 2026
WEST FARMINGTON, OHIO | June 22, 2026...