October 20, 2017
Bouchard Transportation Co. Inc. will pay $13.3 million, plus interest, to the federal government in connection with a 2003 incident that dumped 98,000 gallons of oil off the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts, according to an agreement filed Thursday in Massachusetts federal court.
October 19, 2017
The operator of a tank barge that ran aground nearly 15 years ago and spilled thousands of gallons of oil off the New England coast was sued Thursday by the federal government for pollution damages.