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"Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy company, "knew or should have known" that drilling pipes it sent to a Louisiana pipe yard were contaminated with dangerous radioactive material, a witness testified in court. Paul Templet, a former secretary of Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality, told jurors yesterday in a civil trial in state court in Gretna, Louisiana, that internal Exxon memos showed the company had information beginning in the 1930s about cancer-causing radium in the residue, or "scale," that built up inside its pipes. "

"Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy company, must pay $1.2 million to 16 Louisiana workers who claimed they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when they were cleaning used oil drilling pipes, a jury said. A state court jury in Gretna, Louisiana, yesterday awarded the men amounts ranging from $10,000 to $175,000 each, finding that they face an increased risk of cancer as a result of their exposure to naturally occurring radioactive material in the used pipes between 1977 and 1992. "It was not what I was hoping for," said one of the men, David Perry, who was awarded $10,000."

NEW ORLEANS, May 26 (UPI) -- Attorneys have reached an agreement with ExxonMobil over claims the oil company exposed a Louisiana community to radioactive waste, settlement papers reveal. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Monday that the case relates to contamination allegedly left from three decades of offshore pipe-cleaning east of the Harvey Canal.