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Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Exxon Over Mayflower Oil Spill
Posted by Associated Press: Jeannie Nuss on April 7th, 2013
Associated Press: wo women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the company on Friday. The class-action complaint from Kimla Greene and Kathryn Jane Roachell Chunn comes a week after ExxonMobil Pipeline Co.'s Pegasus pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, about 25 miles northwest of Little Rock. Crews are still working to clean up oil that spewed onto lawns and roadways and almost fouled nearby Lake Conway....
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United States: Drought, flooding cause hard times
Posted by Associated Press: Jeannie Nuss on October 17th, 2011
Associated Press: In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi River.
Not only have Arkansas and Louisiana experienced both drought and flooding, but in some cases, so have individual farmers in those states. The cost of the bad weather could reach $1 billion.
Jerry Gill estimated he lost $100,000. Flooding submerged the 150 acres where he...