Oil Majors Offered Faster Nigerian Exit if They Pay for Cleanup, Compensation May 6, 2024 Major oil companies, such as Exxon Mobil and Shell, that aim to exit Nigeria’s onshore oil can get quicker approval...
Maryland Settles Lawsuit With Tri-Gas & Oil Over Fuel Leak at Storage Facility January 25, 2024 Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced the settlement of a lawsuit against an Eastern Shore fuel storage facility, including...
Looming Waste-Landslide Disaster Prompts Review of Environmental Laws in Denmark January 22, 2024 By Sanne Wass A landslide of contaminated soil that threatens to pollute a water stream in Denmark has prompted the nation’s government to...
New Jersey Sues 8 Pollution Sites to Force Cleanups April 25, 2023 New Jersey announced eight new lawsuits and other action against what it says are companies and individuals who’ve failed to...
EPA Releases $1 Billion to Clean Up Toxic Waste Sites in 24 States December 20, 2021 By Michael Rubinkam Nearly 50 toxic waste sites around the U.S. will be cleaned up, and ongoing work at dozens of others will...
New York Reaches Deal on Cleanup at Long Island Aerospace Site December 30, 2020 New York has reached an agreement with defense contractor Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy on a $406 million plan...
Vale’s Senior Management Unaware of Dam Risk Report, Says CFO February 13, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Senior management at Brazilian miner Vale were never shown internal security documents indicating that its dam at Brumadinho was at...
Brazil Miner Vale Knew Its Tailings Dam Had Higher Risk of Collapse: Reuters February 12, 2019 By Stephen Eisenhammer Vale SA , the world’s largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in...
Audit of Burst Brazil Tailings Dam Raised Concerns over Drainage, Monitoring February 6, 2019 By Ricardo Brito A report commissioned by Brazilian miner Vale SA last year, to look into the stability of a tailings dam that...
Brazil’s Burst Dam Disasters Blamed on Cheap Storage of Mining Waste February 1, 2019 By Laura Millan The deadly collapse of a Vale SA tailings dam in Brazil is serving as a wake-up call for an industry...