ENERGY

Amoco Will Pay $200 Million for Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill: The Chicago-based oil company announced that it would not appeal a U.S. court’s Jan. 24 order to pay French municipal and federal governments for damage from the 1978 Amoco Cadiz oil spill. The ship lost its steering in hurricane-force winds and ran aground off northwest France, spilling 68 million gallons of oil--six times more than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill--that fouled about 100 miles of Brittany’s wildlife-rich coastline. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago had called the spill “a disaster waiting to happen.”