March 02, 2021
A Texas federal judge handed Exxon Mobil Corp. a reduced $14.25 million penalty Tuesday for air pollution violations at a Texas refining and chemical complex in response to an appeals court, after the Fifth Circuit said a higher penalty he handed down in 2017 needed to be reconsidered.
November 29, 2017
Exxon Mobil Corp. has slammed a $6 million fee request from environmental groups who recently won a $20 million judgment against the company over air pollution, telling a Texas federal court that the groups ran up their bill by litigating meritless issues.
October 06, 2017
Environmental groups told a Texas federal judge Thursday that Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay about $6 million in attorneys’ fees and costs stemming from the thousands of hours of work and years of intense, hard-fought litigation that resulted in a nearly $20 million civil penalty against the oil giant.
July 31, 2017
A Texas federal judge said Monday he was correct to impose a nearly $20 million civil penalty on Exxon Mobil Corp. over allegations brought by environmental groups including Sierra Club that it improperly emitted millions of pounds of air pollution from a complex in Texas, ruling that the company should have voiced objections sooner and that penalties were correctly tied to Clean Air Act violations.
June 15, 2017
Environmental groups on Wednesday said that a Texas federal court was correct to impose a nearly $20 million civil penalty on Exxon Mobil Corp. over allegations that it improperly emitted millions of pounds of air pollution from a complex in Texas, arguing that Exxon's objections are either meritless or overdue.
May 25, 2017
Exxon Mobil Corp. on Wednesday told a Texas federal court that a nearly $20 million civil penalty imposed over allegations that it emitted millions of pounds of air pollution from a complex in a Houston suburb "has no economic validity," arguing that the judgment should be recalculated or eliminated.
April 27, 2017
A Texas federal judge ruled Wednesday that Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay nearly $20 million in civil penalties for millions of pounds of air pollution from a refining and chemical complex in a Houston suburb, a win for environmental groups that saw their suit revived by the Fifth Circuit last year.
November 22, 2016
Exxon Mobil Corp. and environmentalists crossed swords Monday over what the oil giant's liability and civil penalties for alleged pollution at a Baytown, Texas, refinery should be, in a Clean Air Act citizen suit that was recently revived.
May 27, 2016
Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to face a $641 million suit brought by environmentalists over emissions at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, the Fifth Circuit said Friday in an opinion that panned portions of the trial court's ruling in Exxon's favor as "irreconcilably inconsistent."
January 16, 2015
Environmental groups on Friday said they plan to appeal a Texas federal judge's decision to nix their $641 million suit against Exxon Mobil Corp. over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act by excessive toxic discharges from an oil refinery.