All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 24 2018 // Costs from climate change-driven extreme weather events are on the rise, and the amount of time left to stop those impacts before they get progressively worse is rapidly closing, according to a Columbia University...
May 23 2018 // The California Organized Investment Network has launched the Impact Investment Marketplace, a portal to help facilitate high impact investments in underserved communities and environmental projects in California.The...
May 18 2018 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took steps on Thursday to roll back and delay Obama-era rules aimed at improving safety at chemical plants, which had come in response to a 2013 explosion at a fertilizer plant in...
May 4 2018 // The mayors of the Lake Superior twin port cities near last week’s oil refinery explosion and fire are calling on its owners to stop using a dangerous chemical compound at the site.Husky Energy in Superior is one of...
Apr 27 2018 // An environmental group has filed a notice of its intent to sue the city of Newark over what it says are elevated levels of lead in the city’s drinking water.The Natural Resources Defense Council has 60 days to file a...
Apr 27 2018 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO), has added attorney Tracy Leeth as a senior benefits compliance consultant and Tim Rogers as safety manager and...
Apr 24 2018 // Duke Energy Corp. will pay a $156,000 penalty to for polluting ground and surface waters in North Carolina with potentially toxic coal-ash waste around three power plants, an amount one critic compared to a couple of days...
Apr 16 2018 // The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that KeySpan Gas East Corporation is responsible for costs to clean up environmental contamination caused by manufactured gas plants owned by its predecessor during years when there...
Apr 12 2018 // Chicken salad made by an Iowa food processing company and distributed by Fareway Stores in the Midwest sickened 265 people in eight states and caused one death in Iowa from salmonella contamination, the U.S. Centers for...
Apr 12 2018 // Commercial property insurance rate increases are easing off initial spikes following 2017’s record natural catastrophe losses, but commercial insurance buyers still face upward pricing pressure on many lines of...
Apr 12 2018 // North Carolina should tackle an emerging problem of water and air pollution from little-studied industrial chemicals by beefing up the state’s health and environmental agencies, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday.Cooper...
Apr 11 2018 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday ruled employers cannot use workers’ salary histories to justify gender-based pay disparities, saying that would perpetuate a wage gap that is “an embarrassing reality of our...
Apr 5 2018 // U.S. Steel will pay a $600,000 civil penalty and $630,000 to reimburse various federal agencies for costs and damages after one of its plants discharged wastewater containing a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a...
Apr 4 2018 // A contract worker has pleaded guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act in connection with a deadly oil platform explosion off Louisiana’s coast.Prosecutors said in court documents that Don Moss, of Groves....
Apr 3 2018 // Note: This story originally ran in The Texas Tribune.Most of the houses along Crosby Eastgate Road in Southeast Texas and its neighboring streets are one-story outfits on sprawling green lots. In their driveways are spare...
Apr 2 2018 // Three petrochemical companies have agreed to pay $11 million to settle charges of illegally disposing hazardous waste that damaged natural resources in part of a Louisiana river’s estuary.The Environmental Protection...
Apr 2 2018 // Marathon Petroleum Corp. has agreed to pay $335,000 for a 2016 spill where nearly 36,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked into the Wabash River near the Indiana-Illinois border.The company’s settlement with the U.S....
Mar 29 2018 // A three-year-old lawsuit by a group of youths against the U.S. over climate change, which looks to now get a new trial date at some point this year, has the potential to open up lawsuits on a historic scale, according to...
Mar 29 2018 // The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that KeySpan Gas East Corporation is responsible for costs to clean up environmental contamination caused by manufactured gas plants owned by its predecessor during years when there...
Mar 29 2018 // Underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Company has launched a dedicated professional liability policy for materials transparency consultants.Born out of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)...