All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 29 2020 // Chile’s environmental regulator on Thursday said it had filed charges against state mining company Codelco over a 2016 tailings spill and river and estuary contamination at its Andina mine in a mountainous region...
Jun 26 2020 // California regulators approved new rules on June 25 that would force automakers to sell more electric work trucks and delivery vans, a first-of-its-kind rule aimed at helping the nation’s most populous state clean up...
Jun 26 2020 // While Bayer AG said it took a major step toward wrapping up litigation over its Roundup weedkiller with a settlement of almost $11 billion, the company still faces about 30,000 unresolved cancer claims that could cost...
Jun 25 2020 // FRANKFURT/NEW YORK— Seeking to forestall further claims, Bayer AG is taking a risky bet that an independent scientific review will ultimately show that its widely used weed killer Roundup does not cause cancer, legal...
Jun 25 2020 // county in Georgia has announced it’s hiring an independent firm to investigate possible coal ash contamination of residential water wells.An environmental consulting group will test wells of residents near Georgia...
Jun 24 2020 // Michigan’s attorney general has asked a judge to shut down a pipeline in the Great Lakes after an energy company discovered that an anchor support had shifted deep below the surface.Enbridge Inc. insists the Line 5...
Jun 24 2020 // A group of 29 global investment firms that manage $3.7 trillion are demanding meetings with Brazilian diplomats around the world to call on right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s government to stop soaring...
Jun 23 2020 // In May 2012, Hanson and Michael Rowe noticed an overpowering smell, like rotten eggs, seeping from an abandoned gas well on their land in Kentucky. The fumes made the retired couple feel nauseous, dizzy, and short of...
Jun 23 2020 // Global Risk Solutions Inc., a provider of claims adjusting and environmental risk management solutions, has expanded its marine claims capabilities with the addition of two claims executives.Peter Wiswell and Joe Daneman...
Jun 17 2020 // Russia’s Gazprom PJSC has made a request with the Danish government to deploy new vessels in the Baltic Sea for work on the disputed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Denmark’s environmental protection agency...
Jun 16 2020 // Businesses across the U.S. have begun intensive Covid-19 disinfection regimens, exposing returning workers and consumers to some chemicals that are largely untested for human health, a development that’s alarming...
Jun 15 2020 // The city of Fort Lauderdale has been slapped with $2.1 million in fines by the state for a series of sewage spills.The South Florida SunSentinel reports that the state Department of Environmental Protection originally...
Jun 15 2020 // Dozens of residents of a small Oklahoma city were temporarily evacuated early on June 13 after a train derailed and spilled a hazardous chemical, officials said.The train went off the tracks at around 2 a.m. in Wynnewood,...
Jun 15 2020 // For more than a century, New Orleans has depended on canals and pumps to get rid of stormwater in a city where about half the land is below sea level.Now the bustling Mississippi River port that expanded by filling in...
Jun 12 2020 // Conservation groups in South Carolina are challenging a 3,000-acre (12,100-hectare) development project in Charleston over concerns that a loss of wetlands could worsen flooding in an already flood-prone area.The Sierra...
Jun 11 2020 // The mishandling of the biggest Arctic oil spill ever infuriated Russian President Vladimir Putin and could give a boost to the country’s environmental regulation.MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC, Russia’s biggest miner,...
Jun 8 2020 // A Waterloo, Iowa, chemical plant will pay a nearly $80,000 civil penalty to settle violations of federal Clean Air Act following a spill last year that hurt a worker there, federal officials said. The federal Environmental...
Jun 8 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty property,/casualty insurer, has launched a U.S. Insurance Environmental unit that augments its existing capabilities currently available through its Sompo Global...
Jun 8 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has introduced Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) Insurance in France. The new policy pairs coverage for multiple environmental risks with technical and legal support to...
Jun 4 2020 // As oil and gas companies began shutting offshore production before the first tropical storm of the season in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, experts said restarting wells and refineries will take longer and prove more costly this...