All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2014 // Lava from a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island is on course to reach a shopping center with a gas station and a supermarket in seven to 10 days, officials said.Lava is about 1 mile from the shopping center in the small...
Dec 15 2014 // Historically, U.S. companies doing business in Europe weren’t likely to list environmental litigation among their major concerns. While the United States has boasted a robust regulatory environment for some time,...
Dec 15 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 1 declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related...
Dec 10 2014 // A West Virginia executive faces charges of lying to protect his personal wealth from lawsuits after his company spilled chemicals into 300,000 people’s water supply in January, according to a criminal complaint...
Dec 9 2014 // ACE Group has appointed Robert Latimer as environmental risk underwriter as it continues to invest in building its environmental liability insurance capabilities in the UK & Ireland. Latimer will be responsible for...
Dec 8 2014 // Eight former and current employees of a Bozeman, Mont. ammunition company fined for safety violations have filed a lawsuit saying they were exposed to dangerous levels of lead.The lawsuit was filed last week against USA...
Dec 2 2014 // The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued a public service announcement reminding residents that snow and ice can damage outdoor heating oil/propane/natural gas tanks, and the piping connecting the tank...
Dec 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related...
Dec 1 2014 // Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants New York to create the nation’s best weather monitoring system, one more robust than even the National Weather Service and more capable of predicting events like the snowstorm that buried...
Nov 17 2014 // When Florida Governor Rick Scott won re-election Nov. 4, he triumphed over both his Democratic challenger and California billionaire Thomas Steyer, who spent $20 million painting him as a climate-change denier.Scott, a...
Nov 12 2014 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is pressing federal regulators to wrap up a long-delayed study of asbestos dangers in a northwestern Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from exposure to the hazardous...
Nov 5 2014 // Harbor officials say efforts to reduce air pollution at the Port of Los Angeles are working. Authorities on Monday say diesel particulate levels dropped 7 percent last year compared to 2012 – an 80 percent reduction...
Oct 22 2014 // Joe Amento, a lifelong resident of Ambler, Pennsylvania, was 53 when he died of a rare cancer with one main cause — exposure to asbestos.He was fine at Christmas 2002. In January, a pain in his side kept him awake at...
Oct 22 2014 // A legal path has been cleared for hundreds of tons of debris to be removed from a waterway south of Coos Bay, Ore. that’s home to federally protected coho salmon and green sturgeon. In April 2012, a massive...
Oct 21 2014 // Cleanup crews continue to mop up a 4,000-barrell oil spill into a four-mile stretch of Tete Bayou northwest of Shreveport, La.Officials said that the oil has been contained without reaching Caddo Lake, which straddles the...
Oct 21 2014 // Methane emissions will likely be the next big environmental issue to face North Dakota’s booming oil industry according to a top official at the state’s Department of Health.Dave Glatt, chief of the Department...
Sep 29 2014 // U.S. hospitals may be unprepared to safely dispose of the infectious waste generated by any Ebola virus disease patient to arrive unannounced in the country, potentially putting the wider community at risk, biosafety...
Sep 26 2014 // Some families in North Little Rock, Ark., have been forced to evacuate their homes after a hazardous chemical spill in a neighbor’s backyard.Fire Chief Jim Murphy tells KATV-TV the homes were evacuated after a...
Sep 23 2014 // The Canadian government is looking at extending the insurance burden for crude-by-rail disasters beyond just railways and is weighing the idea of a special fund similar to one once set up for maritime oil spills, a...
Sep 19 2014 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a $2.9 million settlement that would benefit 300,000 people whose water was contaminated in a January chemical spill.Judge Ronald Pearson filed the order this past Tuesday in U.S....