Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Agency, Lawmakers Aim to Tighten Pollution From Concrete Plants
Nov 18 2022 // ARLINGTON — Deirdre Diamond is frustrated and concerned that another concrete batch plant is coming to her town. Gunter, located about 50 miles north of Dallas, already has 11 permitted concrete batch plants, according...
EPA Fines Kansas, Missouri Home Renovators for Lead-Based Paint Violations
Nov 17 2022 // Five home renovation companies in Kansas and Missouri have agreed to pay nearly $132,000 collectively in penalties to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resolve alleged violations of the federal Toxic...
EPA Seeking Penalties for Clean Water Act Violations in Missouri, Nebraska
Nov 8 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Michael Zahner of Bollinger County, Missouri, and Mark Schmidt of Lancaster County, Nebraska, to take immediate steps to comply with the federal Clean Water...
Moody’s: Environmental Considerations Increasingly Pressuring Issuers’ Credit Profiles
Nov 3 2022 // A Moody’s Investors Service Report shows that 16 sectors holding $4.3 trillion in rated debt are exposed to high or very high environmental credit risk. That’s more than twice as much as when the Paris...
EPA Says Water in Mississippi Capital Now Safe to Drink
Nov 3 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Monday that the water in Mississippi’s capital city is safe to drink, after months of sampling at a treatment plant overwhelmed by August flooding that caused wide...
Washington Chemical Processor Fined Nearly $200K for 60-Plus Safety Violations
Oct 19 2022 // A manufacturing company that works with dangerous chemicals in Moses Lake, Washington, faces $192,620 in fines for 46 serious and 17 general safety and health violations. Two Rivers Terminal LLC formulates products for...
District Sues Chemical Manufacturer Over Anacostia River Pesticide Pollution
Oct 17 2022 // The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court Thursday against chemical manufacturer Velsicol Chemical, LLC, claiming it violated city environmental laws by polluting a major waterway, the Anacostia River...
Plastic Pollution Could Trigger $20 Billion in Lawsuit Payouts
Oct 14 2022 // Litigation could cost the plastics industry and its insurers $20 billion in the US over the next eight years, according to a report backed by the United Nations and an Australian billionaire. Companies including...
EPA to Hold Meeting on Toxic Air Pollution in Ardmore, Oklahoma
Oct 13 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is committed to reducing health risks associated with toxic air pollution and is working to update and strengthen Clean Air Act standards for commercial sterilizers to achieve that...
Chemical Plant Owner to Pay $187M for Maine River Pollution Cleanup
Oct 13 2022 // PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The owner of a former chemical plant that dumped mercury into the Penobscot River must pay at least $187 million to remove the contamination in a resolution to a decades-long legal battle. A...
BP Reaches $2.75 Million Settlement Over Indiana Refinery Pollution
Sep 21 2022 // Oil titan BP reached a $2.75 million settlement over air pollution from its largest refinery after environmentalists complained of repeated emissions violations at the Whiting facility in Indiana. The agreement is the...
Georgia Shrimpers, Businesses File Suits Over Capsized Cargo Ship Pollution
Sep 13 2022 // Fishermen, shrimpers and business owners dependent on coastal tourism have filed lawsuits over pollution caused when a cargo ship capsized off the Georgia coast in 2019. The two federal lawsuits filed last week in Georgia...
EPA Denies Request to Exempt 2 Gulf Coast Plants From Air Pollution Rule
Sep 8 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday denied a request by Cheniere Energy, a leading U.S. producer of liquefied natural gas, to exempt two Gulf Coast plants from a federal air pollution rule. An EPA spokesman says...
Study Shows Pollution, Runoff Intensify Red Tide Blooms in Florida Waters
Aug 30 2022 // A new study by University of Florida researchers has provided one of the strongest correlations yet, showing that red tide outbreaks in coastal waters are exacerbated by man-made pollution. “There has been this kind...
EPA Fines Ohio-Based Autosales $600,000 over Clean Air Act Violations
Aug 23 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that Ohio-based Autosales, Inc. will pay a $600,000 penalty under the Clean Air Act for illegally selling aftermarket products that alter vehicles’...
Environmental Officer Warns New Jersey Is Not Prepared for Climate Change Effects
Aug 17 2022 // New Jersey’s top environmental officer says the state is not ready for the worsening effects of climate change and rising seas. Testifying Thursday to a joint state Senate-Assembly panel on coastal issues, Shawn...
Pipeline Agrees to Pollution Remediation, Watersheds Restoration in Pennsylvania
Aug 9 2022 // The developer of a major pipeline system that connects the Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania to an export terminal near Philadelphia pleaded no contest Friday to criminal charges that it systematically...
Biden EPA to Tackle Coal Industry Carbon With Rules on Other Pollutants
Jul 29 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to use new limits on traditional pollutants like ozone and coal ash to help encourage the retirement of the nation’s remaining coal-fired power plants, after the Supreme...
Missouri Limestone Quarry to Pay $210K EPA Penalty
Jul 25 2022 // Trager Limestone LLC, which operates the Nettleton Limestone Quarry in Caldwell County, Missouri, has agreed to pay a $210,000 civil penalty and perform watershed restoration at a cost of over $300,000, as part of a...
Environmental Group Plans Suit Over Coal Ash in Alabama River Delta
Jul 22 2022 // An environmental group took the first step Wednesday toward filing suit over plans by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of pounds of coal ash near a riverside within the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which activists say...
