Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced that BP has agreed to pay a $50 million fine “for unlawfully emitting pollutants during and after the March 2005 explosion” at its Texas City plant.

BP’s Texas City refinery disaster is a stark reminder of the deadly cost of corporate negligence. Cost-cutting decisions compromised safety, leading to one of the worst industrial explosions in U.S.

BP will pay a whopping $50 million fine to the feds for chronic safety violations at its notorious Texas City refinery, OSHA announced today. The fine is whopping in terms of previous fines; it’s more ...

A survey conducted by the United Steelworkers union (USW) has found that the problems that contributed to the March 2005 blast at BP’s Texas City refinery aren’t only limited to that site, but also ...

The Justice Department has decided not to revoke probation that the government had imposed on BP as part of an agreement to address safety violations at the company's Texas City refinery, site of a ...

OSHA proposed a record-breaking $87 million in penalties for BP’s alleged failure to correct serious health and safety standards at its Texas City, Texas, refinery, the location a fatal 2005 explosion ...