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This was the major statute for deep water spill incidents. It addressed oil spills, cleanup and liability at deep water oil ports. Outer Continent Shelf Lands Act Amendments (1978). [8] This act addressed oil spills, cleanup and liability structure for oil extraction facilities in federal offshore waters. Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Act of 1979. [9]
Of the people with life sentences, 73.2% were Black, 26.6% were White, and .2% were other. 97.1% were male and 2.9% were female. [40] As of September 30, 2009, 84 people, including 82 males and 2 females, were on death row for committing violent crimes. The death row population constituted .2% of Louisiana's incarcerated offenders.
Heavy sheens of oil as visible on the surface of the water in Prince William Sound following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Laws governing oil spills in the United States began in 1851 with the Limitation of Liability Act. This statue, in an attempt to protect the shipping industry, stated that vessel owners were liable for incident-related costs ...
Update, 4:29 p.m.: The Lafourche Parish Facebook Page has been designated as the official source of info for the Raceland oil spill. A hotline was established for wildlife affected by the spill.
The first National Contingency Plan was developed and published in 1968, in response to a massive oil spill from the oil tanker Torrey Canyon, off the coast of England a year earlier. More than 37 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the water and caused massive environmental damage. To avoid the problems faced by response officials ...
Last year, Louisiana became the first state to pass a law requiring pornography websites to verify its users are at least 18 years old, by methods such as uploading one's driver's license.
Map of the largest oil spills in U.S. waters since 1969. In May 2010, the United States Department of the Interior called for an end to drilling in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Despite pushback from oil companies and states, [18] the Supreme Court ruled to keep the moratorium in place until October 2010. [19]
The state of Louisiana issued its first offshore oil and gas lease in 1936, and the following year the Pure Oil Company discovered the first Louisiana offshore oil field, the Creole Field, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the shore of Cameron Parish, from a platform built on timber pilings in 10-to-15-foot-deep (3.0 to 4.6 m) water.