Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Exxon Gets Combative with Critics Suing Over Climate Change Policy
Feb 15 2018 // As climate-change lawsuits against the oil industry mount, Exxon Mobil Corp. is taking a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes: It’s going after the lawyers who are suing it. The company has targeted at...
Court Declines to Tear Up New Jersey’s $225M Settlement with Exxon
Feb 14 2018 // A New Jersey appeals court on Monday turned down a request from environmental groups and a former state senator to undo a $225 million pollution settlement between the state and Exxon Mobil. Appellate Division Judge Carmen...
National Guard Helping After Chemicals Found in Delaware Town’s Wells
Feb 13 2018 // Delaware Governor John Carney has authorized the National Guard to assist residents of a southern Delaware town after the discovery of high levels of toxic chemicals in municipal wells. Authorities said that the Guard has...
Duke Energy, Environmentalists Clash Over 5-Year-Old Groundwater Cleanup Lawsuit
Feb 13 2018 // A North Carolina appeals court should keep alive a five-year-old lawsuit because it increases the pressure on Duke Energy Corp. to clean up groundwater contaminated by its coal ash pits, environmental lawyers argued...
California Governor Wants 5 Million Zero-Emission Cars
Jan 29 2018 // Gov. Jerry Brown outlined a $2.5 billion plan to help Californians buy electric vehicles and expand a network of charging stations as part of a goal of getting 5 million zero-emission cars on the road by 2030. The...
Insurance Industry Making ‘Significant Contributions’ in Climate Change Battle, Report Shows
Jan 25 2018 // The insurance industry is making significant contributions to building socio-economic resilience to climate change and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy in their role as risk management experts and...
California Sues Trump Administration Fracking Rule Repeal
Jan 25 2018 // California on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its repeal of Obama-era rules meant to address public safety concerns on hydraulic fracturing, the process known as fracking that is used to extract oil and...
E&S Exit: State Auto’s Rockhill Sells Environmental Insurance Renewals to CapSpecialty
Jan 16 2018 // Capitol Indemnity Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CapSpecialty Inc., said it has acquired the renewal rights to Rockhill Insurance Group’s excess and surplus environmental insurance book of business. Rockhill is...
Ford Denies Truck Owners’ Claims of Diesel Cheating
Jan 11 2018 // Ford Motor Co. installed software that enabled its F-250 and F-350 Super Duty trucks to cheat at passing federal emissions tests, according to a lawsuit by truck owners filed on Wednesday, a claim the No. 2 U.S. automaker...
Compensation for Iran Tanker Accident Could Be Complicated by U.S. Sanctions
Jan 11 2018 // The reluctance of foreign banks to deal with Iran could complicate any compensation payments resulting from the collision last week of an Iranian oil tanker and a Chinese cargo ship, sources say. The tanker Sanchi,...
Duke Energy Will Pay $84K Penalty for North Carolina Coal Ash Leaks
Jan 11 2018 // The country’s largest electricity company will pay an $84,000 penalty and work to stop potentially toxic waste from three North Carolina coal-burning power plants from leaking into groundwater and nearby rivers under...
Coastal Sea Rise Threatening Florida’s Historic Resources
Jan 9 2018 // The Castillo de San Marcos withstood two sieges in 330 years and changed hands five times, but its latest invader – the rising Atlantic Ocean – threatens to erode the historic St. Augustine fortress. The coquina shell...
ArcelorMittal Subsidiary to Pay $1.5M in Pennsylvania Coke Plant Lawsuit
Jan 8 2018 // A subsidiary of European steel giant ArcelorMittal has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations its western Pennsylvania coke plant violated emissions requirements over soot and other pollutants...
ArcelorMittal Subsidiary to Pay $1.5M in Pennsylvania Coke Plant Lawsuit
Dec 27 2017 // A subsidiary of European steel giant ArcelorMittal has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations that its western Pennsylvania coke plant had violated emissions requirements over soot and other...
EPA Clears Monsanto Roundup Chemical of Health Risks to Humans
Dec 27 2017 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.’s top-selling weed killer Roundup, is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, contradicting a World Health...
North Carolina Environmental Agency to Step Up Pollution Violation Investigations
Dec 21 2017 // North Carolina’s environmental agency is revising internal policies after complaints the agency under former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory repeatedly failed to investigate when industrial-scale hog farms violate...
Trump Hotel, EPA Building Among Federal Properties in Flood Zones
Dec 19 2017 // The worst hurricane season in memory has spurred President Donald Trump to consider new ways to prod private homeowners to move out of flood plains. But many of the federal government’s own buildings are also at risk...
China to Require Polluters to Pay for Environmental Damage
Dec 19 2017 // China plans to roll out nationwide by 2020 a system that forces polluters to repair damage to the environment or pay compensation, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Sunday. The move, which extends a scheme...
Arkansas Lawmakers Want Panel to Reconsider Dicamba Ban
Dec 15 2017 // Arkansas lawmakers have recommended a regulatory panel look at revising its proposed ban of an herbicide farmers in several states say has drifted onto their crops and caused damage, nearly a month after a maker of the...
Traces of GenX Compound Found in North Carolina Food Product
Dec 13 2017 // The unregulated compound found in more than 80 drinking water wells near a chemical company’s manufacturing facility in North Carolina has been found in a food product for the first time. Tests found honey collected...
