All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2012 // U.S. health regulators denied a request to ban a chemical used in water bottles, soup cans and other food and drink packaging, saying there is not enough scientific evidence it may cause harm.The U.S. Food and Drug...
Mar 28 2012 // A behind-the-scenes firestorm in Louisiana’s legislative session centers on a big-money, years-long dispute between landowners and the oil and gas industry over how cleanup should be handled of environmental damage...
Mar 27 2012 // A proposed cleanup of Montana air pollution would force three industrial plants to spend $90 million on measures to improve visibility in some of the nation’s prized public lands, including Yellowstone and Theodore...
Mar 27 2012 // A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total’s abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French oil company warned it may take...
Mar 16 2012 // The seven-member commission selected by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf oil spill is getting back together. This time, it will press for action to improve drilling safety.The re-formed group said it plans to...
Mar 12 2012 // Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to pay $1 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for managing the Superfund site at the former Black Eagle smelter.“It really allows us to have a special account to do...
Mar 12 2012 // The claims of hundreds of Boone County residents who blame coal companies for contaminating their water supplies will be heard in a single trial, a judge ruled last week.Circuit Judge William Thompson issued an order...
Mar 5 2012 // Shell Oil Co. is taking the offensive against environmental groups that have put legal roadblocks in the company’s path to offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean.The Houston-based company on Wednesday sued 11 Alaska...
Mar 5 2012 // BP Plc struck a deal on Friday to pay an estimated $7.8 billion to settle claims from individuals and businesses stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But BP and its partners in the ill-fated Macondo well still...
Mar 5 2012 // BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. are liable and Transocean Ltd. may be liable for civil damages under federal pollution laws over the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge ruled.The decision by U.S....
Feb 29 2012 // An international tribunal has found that it has jurisdiction to decide if Ecuador violated a treaty with the United States requiring it to guarantee a fair trial to Chevron Corp. in an environmental lawsuit that ended in...
Feb 24 2012 // It could be the ultimate case for passing the buck.A massive trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill heads for a New Orleans federal courtroom on Monday, to determine how much BP Plc and others should cough up for the...
Feb 23 2012 // BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. are liable and Transocean Ltd. may be liable for civil damages under federal pollution laws over the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge ruled.Wednesday’s...
Feb 22 2012 // Thirty wells are being installed in Burbank and Glendale in an effort to determine the extent of groundwater contamination.Small amounts of cancer-causing chromium 6 left behind by the San Fernando Valley aircraft industry...
Feb 21 2012 // State safety inspectors are investigating the cause of a dramatic blaze at Washington’s largest oil refinery Friday near Blaine, as BP launched its own review into why it happened.The fire broke out in the sole crude...
Feb 20 2012 // The Virginia Supreme Court has granted rehearing of a closely followed legal case involving climate change coverage, The AES Corp. vs. Steadfast Insurance Company. The court said on Jan. 17 that its previous decision on...
Feb 14 2012 // New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit last Friday designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution.New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the lawsuit...
Feb 14 2012 // Union Pacific Railroad will pay $1.5 million in fines for environmental damage in Provo and other areas of the Intermountain West.The Daily Herald of Provo reported the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the...
Feb 9 2012 // The ACE Group has improved its tank coverage by streamlining environmental coverage for owners and operators of aboveground and underground tanks.The insurer has combined aboveground and underground coverage in a single...
Feb 6 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Companies has appointed AIG executive Julio Portalatin as CEO of Mercer, MMC’s human resource consulting unit. Portalatin succeeds M. Michele Burns who left the firm last October. Portalatin...