All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2023 // A Jersey Shore town where childhood cancer cases rose is trying to overturn a settlement between the state and the corporate successor to the company that dumped toxic waste into the water and ground for decades, turning...
Oct 3 2023 // Authorities resumed their investigation of a central Illinois truck crash that killed five people, injured five others and prompted an evacuation for hundreds of residents after a toxic chemical leak.The tanker truck,...
Oct 2 2023 // Vantage Group Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer, has extended its Contractors Pollution Liability (CPL) and professional liability offerings to environmental contractors and consultants, expanding the...
Sep 21 2023 // Blue Bird Corp., one of the largest and oldest makers of school buses, has fully embraced electric vehicles and will soon provide 13 electric buses to a Kentucky school district.Bowling Green Independent School District...
Sep 19 2023 // Environmental groups called on federal regulators to immediately shut down one of two reactors at California’s last nuclear power plant until tests can be conducted on critical machinery they believe could fail and...
Sep 15 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin lawmakers agreed Wednesday to settle allegations that two factory farms violated their pollution permits for more than a quarter of a million dollars.The Legislature`s Joint Finance...
Sep 13 2023 // Burns & Wilcox, the wholesale insurance brokerage, has agreed to acquire Alabama-based Environmental Underwriting Solutions, a wholesale broker specializing in complex environmental exposures, from Insurance Office of...
Sep 7 2023 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) – As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental advocates and residents of Louisiana’s chemical corridor have...
Aug 29 2023 // In early June 2022, an employee of a Vermont agricultural equipment company observed the company pumping wastewater from the facility’s service bays onto the ground bordering the Winooski River in Berlin and was...
Aug 16 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) __ Texas is suing Shell and is seeking more than $1 million, alleging a fire at the oil giant`s Houston-area petrochemical plant damaged the environment.The May 5 fire at the plant in the suburb of Deer...
Aug 11 2023 // A growing ‘greenlash’ against Europe’s environmental agenda has not so far derailed its decarbonization plans, but looming elections could put future climate and nature measures at risk.The European Union...
Aug 9 2023 // Severn Trent Plc faces an environment class action lawsuit in London over allegations it abused its dominant position in the utilities market and underreported instances where it pumped sewage into open water.Law firm...
Aug 7 2023 // Cleanup from a chemical spill and fire near Interstate 24 in Tennessee will take several days, after the interstate was shut down and nearby homes evacuated overnight on Thursday.Emergency responders were called to the...
Jul 21 2023 // Less than two years after an investigation found dozens of serious safety and health violations at a Verona, Missouri chemical plant, workplace safety inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor identified 16 violations,...
Jul 18 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) __ Wisconsin regulators can`t legally impose environmental regulations on factory farms before they become operational, two farm advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit that could dramatically loosen...
Jul 10 2023 // \National Grid agreed to pay $5.38 million to state and federal agencies to resolve claims over environmental damage caused by the defunct Gloucester Gas Light Company, officials said Friday.Hazardous chemicals released by...
Jul 10 2023 // Even though lead in drinking water damages children`s development, the Environmental Protection Agency has forced very few cities to replace their lead pipes.Consider Chicago, with more water pipes made out of lead than...
Jul 7 2023 // A group of 25 Republican state attorneys general Thursday urged the Biden administration to abandon its proposal to sharply cut vehicle tailpipe emissions, which would require dramatically more electric vehicles, saying it...
Jun 28 2023 // A producer of industrial gas in West Virginia has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act by dumping copper, aluminum, residual chlorine, iron and phenolics into the Ohio River...
Jun 27 2023 // More than 90% of the world’s marine food supplies are at risk from environmental changes such as rising temperatures and pollution, with top producers like China, Norway and the United States facing the biggest...